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How substantial is the image quality difference between M50 and M6 markii?

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Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
Re: How substantial is the image quality difference between M50 and M6 markii?
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As others have said, the IQ difference between the M6ii and the M50ii/M200 etc isn't huge. For most images which aren't cropped a lot and displayed or printed at normal resolutions, I've found there is nearly no difference.

The M6ii sensor is only about 16% more linear resolution on each axis (height and width). The main benefit for me is that you can crop in closer, and you have more latitude in correction perspective with M6ii images, along with the obvious better 'telephoto reach' the M6ii shares with the R7 for things like BIF and wildlife photography, when paired with a sharp lens.

In my experience the Canon EF-M 32mm f1.4 seems to be the only native EF-M lens which can fully resolve the 32 MP across the entire frame, but even the kit lenses still come close near the center and when stopped down, and all lenses give better results on 32 MP than with 24 MP due to the extra information in the image.

For low light performance, I found the M6ii has about 1/2 to 2/3 EV advantage over the M50ii and M200. I can confidently push M200 images using DxO PL6 to at least ISO 8k-10k, whereas with the M6ii I can still get good results to ISO 12k - 16k with very sharp primes.

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