New 25mm f/0.95 lens for EF-M?

m100 wrote:

nnowak wrote:

m100 wrote:

Advi wrote:

nnowak wrote:

thetoolman wrote:

It's very interesting that Laowa Argus would offer this new lens for Canon EOS M. Perhaps they know something we don't about what Canon's EOS M plans are?

It is being offered for Canon EF-M, Canon RF, Fujifilm X, Nikon Z and Sony E mounts. Basically, every APS-C mirrorless mount. As a strictly manual focus lens with no electrical contacts, adapting the design to various systems is a trivial process of just bolting on a different mount.

Then again, why bother with EF-M ?

They tried it on a M50II and saw how easy it was to use with the focus peaking and digital magnify features and thought wow what a sweet combo ?

All of the systems have those capabilities, and many had it well before Canon.

About a bazillion M50 and M50II cameras out there too ?

I only know about Canon focus peaking.

I kinda figured that from your post.

First tried it on a M with ML. Did not like that ML made the camera run warm and the battery ran down faster.

The focus peaking on the M100 was the first to dazzle me using my TS 35mm.

It is brighter and more useful on my M50 and M50II.

The focus peaking performance is also tied to the sharpness setting in the selected picture style. Not ideal.

Focus Peaking is just using basic contrast detection, and as far as I can tell, all focus peaking implementations run off of the data from the video feed to the EVF/Rear LCD. Any adjustments to picture styles or exposure settings will change the appearance in the EVF/LCD, which in turn impacts focus peaking as it is looking at the same data.  The feed to these displays is also significantly lower in resolution than what the image sensor can produce. With your M50, the rear LCD is only 720 X 480. The EVF is a bit better at 1024 X 768. Both of these are tiny fraction of the 6000 X 4000 resolution of the image sensor.

More important than the camera is the lens in use. The more definitive the cutoff between in focus and out of focus, the better the results will be. For example, the Sigma 56mm f/1.4 will give much better focus peaking response than the the EF-M 15-45mm f/2.5-6.3.

I wonder which camera brand or model has the best, easiest to use manual focus tools ?

They all work pretty much the same. The only subtle difference tends to be in the allowable button customization to control focus peaking. Fuji does offer an additional option for a retro styled split image similar to what one would see in an old film SLR, but it is not anywhere near as useful as the ubiquitous highlight color focus peaking.