Just ordered a used Sigma 56 /1.4

MyM6II wrote:

Max5150 wrote:

Alexis wrote:

The Sigma 56/1.4 is in another league compared with the Canon 22/2. Your wasting the Sigma on the m200

Just out of curiosity, why?

I am wondering about that too. I have some GREAT photos taken with the M200 + Sigma 56. (Nothing I can post here though, because of privacy.)

Btw. I have some great photos taken with he M200+ 22mm too. (The 22mm is in a different league when it comes to size and weight. (Pocketability).

I understand the motivation behind the advice.... if I'm out shooting with both the 32 MP resolution M6ii and 24 MP M200, I will often put the 'sharper' lens on the M6ii since its sensor has more resolving power and if I need to crop and blow up a part of the image I would get better results that way.

I can't agree that using the Siggy on a 24 MP sensor camera is 'wasting' it --- what about all those Fuji and Sony owners using that resolution? The 56 will give fantastic images on any camera it's used on and even on a 24 MP you will see the difference between a sharp lens like that and a kit lens or a slightly less sharp lens like the EF-M 22mm f2 wide open.

Although there is a difference in resolution between 24 and 32 MP, it's not even a 20% difference in linear resolution, so not as big as the diference sounds.

If you're not cropping a lot and not blowing up images to huge dimensions, 24 MP is already more than enough for most purposes. The m6ii's extra resolution is a nice to have, but can be overkill depending on your final target image size.

I've taken a lot of images with both the M6ii and M200 in the same circumstances, and once I've processed them and view them, for most images you can't tell which images were taken with which camera. Where it makes a difference is cropped to close to pixel resolution, or at high ISOs, or pushing the shadow noise ---- the 32 MP sensor is 1/2 to 2/3 Ev better in low light.

The other case I like to use the M6ii for if shooting with the m200, is for perspective correction for wide angle images. The 32 MP images can be pushed a bit farther when correcting wide angle lens distortion, due to the extra pixel information the 32 MP image has.  If I know I may be needing distortion correction, I will often put the wider angle lens I'm shooting on the M6ii, even if the lens that ends up on the m200 is sharper.