Just ordered a used Sigma 56 /1.4

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

Have both and few others. 
32 is the most used lens due to the amazing photo quality

Max5150 wrote:

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

I'd use the 22 on the m200 instead

Max5150 wrote:

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

Big congrats!  It’s an excellent lens.  So useful!

I haven’t heard about any copy variation, so you may be in luck.  Happy shooting!

R2

Max5150 wrote:

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

Nice !

I bought a used one from MPB. My first Sigma lens.

May well be the sharpest at f/1.4 lens I have ever owned. Right up there with my 32mm.

Has made me a Sigma lens fan for sure,

For me the lens comes first then a good body to back it up.

That 32mp Canon sensor is a good one to back up the Sigma 56mm lens.

Stopped me from wanting a new R7 because no Sigma lenses for R cameras though.

Cured my Canon GAS.

m100 wrote:

Max5150 wrote:

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

Nice !

I bought a used one from MPB. My first Sigma lens.

May well be the sharpest at f/1.4 lens I have ever owned. Right up there with my 32mm.

Has made me a Sigma lens fan for sure,

For me the lens comes first then a good body to back it up.

That 32mp Canon sensor is a good one to back up the Sigma 56mm lens.

Stopped me from wanting a new R7 because no Sigma lenses for R cameras though.

Cured my Canon GAS.

I am hoping for a Black Friday discount, and then I will buy it for my M50ii. I have the Sigma 30mm EF-m and this is my sharpest lens.

PVDL wrote:

m100 wrote:

Max5150 wrote:

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

Nice !

I bought a used one from MPB. My first Sigma lens.

May well be the sharpest at f/1.4 lens I have ever owned. Right up there with my 32mm.

Has made me a Sigma lens fan for sure,

For me the lens comes first then a good body to back it up.

That 32mp Canon sensor is a good one to back up the Sigma 56mm lens.

Stopped me from wanting a new R7 because no Sigma lenses for R cameras though.

Cured my Canon GAS.

I am hoping for a Black Friday discount, and then I will buy it for my M50ii. I have the Sigma 30mm EF-m and this is my sharpest lens.

I think the M50II with the Sigma 56mm is a very good portrait camera.

Picks out eyes to focus on very fast and nails eye focus.

Had I bought the 56mm first I might have bought the Sigma 30mm instead of the Canon 32mm.

m100 wrote:

PVDL wrote:

m100 wrote:

Max5150 wrote:

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

Nice !

I bought a used one from MPB. My first Sigma lens.

May well be the sharpest at f/1.4 lens I have ever owned. Right up there with my 32mm.

Has made me a Sigma lens fan for sure,

For me the lens comes first then a good body to back it up.

That 32mp Canon sensor is a good one to back up the Sigma 56mm lens.

Stopped me from wanting a new R7 because no Sigma lenses for R cameras though.

Cured my Canon GAS.

I am hoping for a Black Friday discount, and then I will buy it for my M50ii. I have the Sigma 30mm EF-m and this is my sharpest lens.

I think the M50II with the Sigma 56mm is a very good portrait camera.

Picks out eyes to focus on very fast and nails eye focus.

Had I bought the 56mm first I might have bought the Sigma 30mm instead of the Canon 32mm.

I think the colors of the Canon 32 are a little bit warmer than the Sigma 30. The Sigma is a little bit cool. But it is a superb lens. I am glad I have it. The 56 is also very light weight and handy, so I can not resist...

It's a great lens. Right now, it's my most used EF-M lens. I usually have my M6II in a small bag with this lens and the 22. I take a lot of pictures of small events (colloquia, seminars, etc.) on campus (I'm in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado Boulder). The 56 on the M6II using e-shutter is an ideal combination. Luckily, none of the rooms where our events take place have lighting that causes problems with e-shutter. Here are a few from a couple of talks last Friday:

I'm almost always shooting it wide open. It's so sharp that I simply don't need to stop down for added sharpness.

Alastair Norcross wrote:

It's a great lens. Right now, it's my most used EF-M lens. I usually have my M6II in a small bag with this lens and the 22. I take a lot of pictures of small events (colloquia, seminars, etc.) on campus (I'm in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado Boulder). The 56 on the M6II using e-shutter is an ideal combination. Luckily, none of the rooms where our events take place have lighting that causes problems with e-shutter. Here are a few from a couple of talks last Friday:

I'm almost always shooting it wide open. It's so sharp that I simply don't need to stop down for added sharpness.

Nice !  You can use a fast shutter speed to freeze facial expressions and still keep the ISO low where the M6II can handle it no problem.

I got to live in Golden and work at Coors for awhile.  Loved it.

DrMaemo wrote:

Congrats!

Share your impressions of the lens after you receive it and get to know what you like and dislike (if any) about it.

I don't have this lens, but it is on my list to get next. I am preferring this 56mm f/1.4 lens over the 32mm because the 32mm focal length is not that much different from the 28mm lenses (one is an f/1.4) that I own. For me, the 56mm fills a gap.

Have fun capturing images of our world.

Yes, I too am interesting in hearing the first impressions of the Sigma 56mm f1.4 EF-M lens.

I've had one for about a year and it's a fantastic lens, very sharp and the images have a special quality to them due to the portrait focal length, great sharpness, and clean rendering.

I find I take it out much more than the Canon 32mm since the 32 is closer to the wides I usually take along like the tiny EF-M 22, and I just don't shoot that much around the 32mm focal length. Although the 32 is definitely my sharpest lens, the Sigma 56 is probably the closest in sharpness to the 32 among all the lenses I have.

I have owned over the years nearly a dozen vintage 50mm lenses, including some classics like the Minolta MC Rokkor-X 50mm f1.4, and many 50mm f1.7s, 1.8s and f2s. When I got the Sigma I had 7 nifty fifties and was doing a comparison among them.... the Sigma 56 blew them all away wide open, they didn't even catch up in sharpness until around f4 - f5.6. Within months of getting the Sigma I sold all but 2 of my vintage 50's, realizing I wouldn't use them again...

I kept the two 50's I had used the most, which had the best, sharpest image quality. Interestingly, a Minolta MD 50mm f2.0 lens from the 1980s is the sharpest of any vintage 50 I've owned, at f2 or wider aperture. The other lens I kept is a Yashica ML 50mm f1.7 which is nearly as sharp at f2.0 as the Minolta, but at f4 is as sharp as any other vintage 50 is at f5.6 or f8, and at f5.6 the Yashica is razor, near-Zeiss-sharp with great micro-contrast and lovely colors that are slightly warmer than modern glass.

I also have the Sigma 16mm f1.4 lens. Fantastic lens as well, but it is larger and heavier and so comes with me only at night when I know I'm going to need it and no other lens will do.

I will say about the Sigmas, that they are really nice aesthetically --- sleek looking, very ergonomic, with great build quality. Really fun to use.

Max5150 wrote:

Hopefully it's a good one. Used you never know. Might just get a used M200 and leave it on there. So my two prime lenses will be the EF-M 22mm on the M6ii and the 56mm on the M200. At least that's what I'm thinking. I don't think I'd get a lot of use out of the EF-M 32mm, but maybe I'm wrong there. Hard to know.

If you don't mind refurbs, the black refurbished M200 kit with the 15-45 is on sale at $349, a great deal, and comes with a sling backpack camera bag which might be useful. If you don't have a need for the 15-45 you could eBay it for around $75 which discounts the m200 body price even more.

https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/refurbished-eos-m200-ef-m-15-45mm-f-3-5-6-3-is-stm-kit-black

This sale keeps coming and going, so if you're interested, don't think about it too long

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

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).

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.

I agree with everything you say.

I just thought the "waisting" comment (from Alex) was very weird from someone who shoots with an M50 II.