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

nnowak wrote:

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 not sure what you are trying to show with these photos,

I am showing that even a very modest kit can produce images (in extremely tough conditions) that were entirely suitable for printing to Super B+ for my clients (the riders) who now own those photos.  I take this as more proof of success than anything from someone who hasn’t actually done it.

but everything is blurry. The ridiculously small file sizes, ranging from 0.6 MP to 1.2MP, certainly are not helping with any perception of sharpness. Looking at the aspect ratios, these files were cropped, but were they cropped all of the way from 24MP, or were they also downsized a ton too?

Certainly.  These are just small files from my web gallery.  Some are significant crops (such as the first image which was actually shot in landscape format).  I did in fact want to blur everything (to show motion) except for the parts that were moving in unison with my panning motion.  All look great printed.

I am not sure why AF even mattered for these photos. Even if you were only 10 feet away from your subjects, your Depth of Field would be massive at 15mm and f/4.0. Manual pre-focus would have easily worked.

Well then it’s obvious you don’t know how to shoot this type of shot, as each rider had to be photographed on the run up to the jump and through the landing.  Would not have worked your way at all.  In fact the photoshoot would have been a failure, and Red Bull would not have asked me back the following years.

My advice.  Instead of disparaging people on this Forum (who have different experiences than you), IMHO your time here would be better spent actually helping others.  Open your mind a little and you can easily see the good that can come from even a modest piece of equipment, instead of just bad bad bad.

Try it.  It’s very rewarding.

R2