How do you evaluate the Canon EOS M50 mirrorless camera?

I happen to have a Canon M50 camera. I bought it when I had 4 SLR cameras from Canon and Sigma and 2 fixed-focus portable cameras, mainly because of it

( 1) Lightweight, full-featured, with 4k video, an all-round flip screen, practical touch moving focus point and touch shutter, sufficient image quality, and affordable price.

(2) It can be used as a good entry-level camera, or as a backup camera for a SLR. You can take one less big lens with you when hiking and creating. It turns out that I have 2 SLRs and 3 big lenses. It’s really Too heavy.

(3) I equipped it with two lenses, EFM11-22 and 18-150. The former is responsible for wide angle and is still wide enough after 4k video cropping. The latter can be hung up and can be used at both distance and near. When shooting humanities, look down at the screen at waist level and use the touch shutter button. No one will know you are shooting.

First of all, the conclusion - Canon m50 is currently the most suitable entry-level mirrorless camera for newbies.

Let’s talk about the shortcomings first

1. Plastic body? On the other hand, the light weight is not an advantage. What kind of bicycle does 3500 want?

2. Battery life dishes? There is no common problem at this stage, with less than 300 pictures, and with a spare battery, non-professionals should not use it to shoot for a day. It is indeed a bit tricky to have to fully charge the battery before going out, and it is indeed malicious to most middle-aged and second-year youths.

3. How many lenses are available? The existing M-mount lenses are sufficient for daily shooting, but again, professionals will not buy this. Currently, adapter rings are available, so patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder should avoid them.

The above shortcomings are really not shortcomings. If you can't accept it, just buy another camera. After all, at the price of 3500, it has everything it should have.

Let’s talk about the advantages. The advantages are interesting.

1. The body is compact, easy to carry and takes up little space. More than 300 grams, think about the weight of the backpack during the trip. With this, will those weighing two pounds of cameras make you desperate?

2. Focus quickly. Full-pixel dual-core focusing, a new technology, the 10,000-meter 6d2 also has this.

3. Good picture quality, 8th generation chip, Canon’s best 16K 5d4 is a 6th generation chip, and 10K 6d2 is a 7th generation chip

4. Field of view The rate is 100%. Composition is very important. The 77d with five or six thousand has a field of view rate of 95. Users of 800d and 750d feel full of malice. Only the 80d with seven or eight thousand can enjoy the treatment.

5. There are many focus points, 143 focus points are definitely enough! The 45-point focus of 80d, 6d2, and 5d4 has surpassed tens of thousands.

6. 4k shooting, more than 10,000 6d2 users once again felt full of malice. 6d2 only shoots in 1080p high definition, absolutely worth it.

7. Five-axis electronic image stabilization is a gimmick, not body image stabilization. Compared with the electronic image stabilization of 6d2 and 77d, it still has advantages.

8. 10-shot continuous shooting, 5d4 and 6d2 with tens of thousands of shots only have 7-shot continuous shooting, which is another complete abuse.

9. The control is user-friendly. I personally think this is Canon’s core competitiveness! ! The latitude of Canon's machines is simply unbearable. The machines are terrible, only the controls are good. This advantage is for Sony and shoe manufacturers, and is suitable for newcomers.

Summary: We have everything we need. The toothpaste from the touch factory will be thrown into the smelly water if it is not squeezed. There is not much room for the price of 3500 to drop. There is an M6 top, so wait for a big price reduction. Maybe, it is already a very cost-effective machine in the factory. Worth buying!

I am using it. I checked a lot of relevant information before buying it, read a lot of reviews, and also read some foreign reviews. Among entry-level mirrorless cameras, the m50 is still very cost-effective and is used by some Netizens call it a vlog artifact. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it still makes sense. First of all, I felt that its style is not ugly, it is small and exquisite, and the camera head is a 15-45 dog head. Later, it was equipped with an 18-150. I never took it off after putting it on. For the time being, I will use this lens to conquer the world.

The biggest advantage of the Canon EOS M50 is its fast focusing speed. Even the full-frame professional 5d3 is sometimes not as good as it. This is mainly because it is equipped with an eighth-generation processor with powerful functions. Even in fast continuous shooting (10 seconds per second) ), I almost didn’t notice that several of them were blurry, and they were all in focus accurately; the performance of landscape photography was pretty good, and I also took a lot of portrait photography. The intelligent face recognition is very useful. It can capture all the faces in group photos. Circle, every face captured is clear. The m50 performs very well under sufficient light. In dark light environments, it is not as powerful as in bright light conditions. There is definitely a gap with the 5d3 in terms of tolerance. We can understand this price, this positioning, and this aps-c format configuration. In terms of vlog shooting, this is no problem. Even when shooting short videos, even if it is handheld, its 5-axis anti-shake works well, and there is no unbearable picture with particularly obvious line shake; its 4k video shooting effect is better than that of the 5d3 SLR , the autofocus supports tracking focus, so that the subject can focus accurately even when the subject moves; its video shooting provides the most popular time-lapse photography function at present, and the effect is good after shooting many times. The night scene time-lapse color is found to be deceptive. I have used this Fine-tuning in the later stage can solve the problem; long-exposure shooting of light tracks and car tracks is no problem. Its B door is set in the manual M gear. After you select the M gear, adjust the shutter speed all the way to slow down and the B door will appear; One highlight is its 360-degree flip screen design, which is very convenient for taking selfies. You can insert the interview microphone into the hot shoe without affecting the screen flip. This design is very user-friendly. The Canon M6 flip screen can only be turned 180 degrees, which is a bit uncomfortable. convenient. Another advantage of the m50 is that it is easy to connect to a mobile phone. You can use Bluetooth, wifi, and nfc to connect to the mobile phone through the camera connect app. You can use the mobile phone to control the camera's framing, focus, and shooting, and you can synchronize camera photos or videos to the mobile phone; the camera is mounted on a tripod. , roughly locking the subject, and then you can hold the phone to trigger the shutter on the phone screen at any time, eliminating the need for a SLR shutter release cable, which is very convenient for long-exposure shooting. The lens support of the m50 is basically no problem. You can adapt it to SLR lenses through an adapter ring. In terms of battery life, one battery is definitely not enough. You have to buy at least another one, which can almost handle normal shooting. All in all, the m50 is not bad, and the price-performance ratio is very high. It is recommended to buy it, you will not regret it.

If you like taking selfies, you can choose. If you are accustomed to the control of a SLR, it is recommended not to choose the M50 but the M5, because the M5 has more dials and buttons than the M50, making it suitable for blind operation. The rest is the lens. It is recommended to choose a Canon mirrorless lens 18-150, and then use an adapter to add a 35 or 50 fixed focus. This is what I took with M5 plus 50 fixed focus plus close-up lens, please refer to it.