Re: Canon R50 or M50 Mark II
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Miamistars wrote:
Your advice would be greatly appreciated. So I’m in the market for a new Canon APSC camera. I almost pulled the trigger on the M50 Mark Ii and then the R50 was announced which is apparently a substantial upgrade from the M. I’m interested in street, travel, macro and family stills photography and on occasion do some video. I’m not a content creator or blogger. If the M50 takes good photos, has enough lenses for me to pick from and is cheaper, why would I even consider the R50? Thank you for your consideration.
I'm not that familiar with the R50 yet, but it does have the electronic first curtain or full electronic shutter only. Though, the issue there is probably not relevant unless you want to use f/1.2 lenses. Not well versed on the issue. Read up on it.
Why the R50 over the M50ii?
- More recent autofocus with more options to adjust it.
- LP-E17 instead of LP-E12 batteries
- Charge batteries in the camera and a USB-C port instead of micro USB
- Revised sensor (no idea if or how much of an improvement it is)
- Long term support and Canon's focus.
- x-sync speed of 1/250th sec
- Noticeably better video quality and UVC/UAC webcam support (aka. plug and play with no need for drivers or hdmi capture from what I can tell but the M50ii does support clean HDMI and their webcam utility). Plus support for over 30 minutes of video recording per clip.
- 1.62m dot LCD instead of 1.04m.
- Support for the HEIF format.
- It has a new auto mode that does point & shoot smartphone style computational magic apparently. No idea if it works well.
- Probably other stuff...
If you can get an M50ii cheap and EF-M has the lenses you want (or you don't mind adapting EF and EF-S) then it's fine as a normal everyday camera. I used the original M50 for years and did pretty much every style of photography and video possible. Wasn't perfect but it got the job done.