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Bought an M6 Mkii this week

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Re: Bought an M6 Mkii this week

USS Nautilus wrote:

I have been pondering of getting the Canon M6 Mark II camera. I have the Canon T2i camera.

The M6II is a great camera if you can live with two of its biggest shortcomings: no weather-sealing & no IBIS. Personally I think it is a great engineering compromise, because of the reduced size which I value more in this body than extra features.

I know Canon M6 Mark II camera has been discontinued. I wonder if I should get the camera or not. I saw some good deals that I could not ignore.

The M6II feels like a Canon pro camera crammed into the tiniest package possible while still maintaining the distinct Canon feel. You already know that you are buying into a potentially dead system, but the benefit is that you exactly know what you get. If there will be future lens & camera releases, it will be rather minor ones. The only risks I see are the official repairability in the distant future and the dependency on the second-hand market if you like to buy new (in the worst case when your body should get damaged).

I do not want to feed any GAS, but if I could get a good deal, I would just get a second body without any hesitation. The only reason I will not buy a second EF-M body is that I got already more than enough (but without a second EF-M body when my M6II would break I would have to get rid of all EF-M lenses, and some of them are pretty decent).

On the other hand, Canon might come with something better. It seems like many who have the Canon M6 Mark II camera are happy with it.

The alternative Canon already revealed is the RF-S system which is no alternative in my book as an owner of one RF system body & multiple lenses. If only RF & RF-S would have existed instead of RF & EF-M when I got my M6II, I would have probably bought another small Fujifilm APS-C body instead.

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