M6: 11-22mm+32mm / Grief with larger camera (PICS)...

Marco Nero wrote:

Asla wrote:

Hi!

Greetings from Finland. I hope your Mother in law gets better! Too bad to travel half the world an then illness manifests...

I also hope end for those fires you have. Se normally have no large forrest fires here, but sometimes smoke has come from Soviet fires. This is, however early winter, so no more fires here...

A s l a

Winter is approching. Taken with phone at lunch break.

We've certainly seen some terrible ash in the air from the local fires. It colored the sky brown and blocked out the sun here two days ago. It's been an interesting week but hundreds of homes were lost to the flames and they're still finding dead bodies from people who tried out out-run or drive out of the fires. They just found another person in the last few hours. The loss of wildlife is horrific.
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M6 + 32mm - The air quality is worse than Beijing right now in Sydney.

M6 + 32mm

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On another note, I received a phone call from the hospital in relation to my confrontation with the over-zealous security guard. They apologized for what had occurred and it was nice to see that they were capable of following up with my concerns. From what I could take from the conversation, they had no objection to the images I had taken (I send them some examples taken with the M6). It was a refreshing surprise to see common sense prevailing at a time when so many institutions are critical of photography, even though almost every smart phone has a "pro-capable camera" these days. Again, the incident served to show why small cameras like the EOS M series are far, far less likely to garner attention compared to a larger DSLR with a large lens.

I'm glad someone dug this post up.

I have to concur; these days, large cameras don't just grab unwanted attention of security, but of thieves, and locals, too. Just this week, I showed up to a coffee shop with "Goliath" aka R + RF 28-70 f/2L, locals asked why I had something that could "shoot the moon" with me. Yesterday, I lost my phone at the fair and it was picked up by someone, and then powered off, after, I turned on find my iPhone. I can tell you that if locals and thieves notice things big and small, less is more.

Although off topic, it's truly a shame Canon isn't doing more RF-S glass. Us M shooters have a path to nowhere to resolve issues like portability while maintaining power. An RP with say an RF 35mm f/1.8 is not the same as an M6 II with an EF-M 22mm, nor is the R10 with a RF 24mm f/1.8, either.

An R10 + 100-400 would've never made it into my coat pocket, like the M50 II + 55-200, did. DSLRs / ILCs were permitted, but you're funny lugging around a tank on your kids field trip for the Nutcracker