EF-M 55-200mm - Post your PHOTOS!

It's been sunny and warm enough in Oregon so that I could find a few crocus flowers.

Here's one I took yesterday. I added a thin border. I'm not sure if that is better or not. I'm just trying different things. I hope you like the image.

Here's one I took at our air show yesterday.  I tried taking video also of the skydivers.  I was partially successful.  After some trial and error, I finally found myself getting used to the video on and off button.

I got this lens a few weeks ago to go with an M6-ii.  At max zoom it's f/6.3, which corresponds to a 7.5µm diffraction disk, versus the 3µm pixel size of the M6-ii, so the combined system is diffraction-limited even wide open.  This is mostly a bad thing, but it does have that advantage that bayer CA is never apparent, even viewed at 400%.  To show the limits, the dragonflies in the photos below are 100% crops.  The spider monkey too.

Another thing to bear in mind when this lens is paired with the M6-ii (no electronic first curtain shutter) is that mechanical shutter shock will usually blur the image on telephoto EF-M lenses at shutter speeds below 1/125 or so.  This seems to be a system interaction between first shutter vibration and the IS gyros in these unusually small+light telephotos, made more apparent by a 32.5MP APS-C sensor.  For outdoor shooting of slow-moving subjects the problem is easily addressed by using the full-electronic shutter, with the additional advantage of total silence.

The IS is rather good on this lens -- the orangutan shot was at 1/50 handheld, and the spider monkey at 1/80, and both show diffraction-limited detail -- but you won't know it with the M6-ii until you switch to electronic shutter.  Before figuring this out, my first attempts to capture the orangutan were blurred at 1/60.

Post-processing notes: all done with darktable, lens correction on, sharpened only to deconvolve diffraction blur.  White balance and exposure are manually tweaked, "filmic rgb" on and mostly at default settings, and with a dash of "velvia" on most of them (but none on the roseate spoonbill - the color there is as-shot except for "filmic").  And obviously, most of them are variously cropped.  There's no adaptive CA correction on any of them, just the linear TCA cancellation in the lens correction.  For comparison, with the fast EF-M primes, particularly the Canon 32mm and Sigma 56mm, it's easy to wind up with lots of bayer CA.  Those lenses have airy disks around 2µm so they're not (at all) diffraction-limited on the M6-ii.

Note all exports are at 50% or 100%, and have full exif data FWIW.

spider monkey, Houston Zoo

roseate spoonbill, Houston Zoo

orangutan at the zoo

African painted dog at the zoo

Komodo dragon at the zoo

cheetah at the zoo

dragonfly at Houston Arboretum

dragonly at the arboretum

dragonfly at the zoo

pigeon at Hermann Park

bald eagle at the zoo

butterflies at HMNS

butterfly at HMNS

flowers at HMNS butterfly garden

flower at the arboretum

Here's some I hope you like.  They were taken at the Washington County Fair in Oregon.  The diving platform was tilted a little towards the pool of water.  See the buildings in the background on the left side for reference.

Jeff NB wrote:

The sun was behind the plants in the background.

This has been a fun lens around the yard.

Wow great captures. That last flower is stunning. Love the lighting.