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Canon M6 II with kits lens or Body only + buy a lens? Locked

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Maxmolly7
Maxmolly7 Senior Member • Posts: 1,481
Re: Singing

R2D2 wrote:

MAC wrote:

nnowak wrote:

as Storm said, if the plan is to buy this one kit lens, that is a bad plan. I'd just stay with the G7XII.

The m6II sings with the right m mount lenses

Shoot MAC. You know the M6ii can sing with ANY lens I put on it. Even the lowly 15-45.

In fact, here’s the kit lens on the much maligned (for its AF) M5! And this wasn’t even my “good” copy…

M5 + EF-M 15-45 kit lens. Mountain bikers off an 8 foot drop, and moving much faster than I would ever care to!

ditto

Crazy!

(the OP's use case), the 15-45mm kit lens kills many of the advantages of the M6 II.

Cropping only exasperates the situation.

The 15-45mm shouldn't be your the only lens ror an M6ii.

Unless you're offering to buy the OP an extra lens, their plan is to just start with a kit lens.

That's a bad plan. In that case the OP shouldn't get the M6ii at all.

I'd agree with you Storm.

Starting with only the 15-45mm certainly would not be my choice. I think I would rather just buy the bare body and drill a hole in the body cap to make a pinhole lens.

Me, I’ll continue to use the 15-45 wherever a 24-70 equiv is appropriate. And love it.

Sing on baby!

R2

I am sorry to disagree but these images are not exactly proof for a good kit lens. While the content shows nice action and placement of subject, the image quality is not good at all. YMMV.

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