I am particularly interested in the various ways that exposure compensation can be affected in the M6 II.
In the M6 I...there was only one way: the top dial (not my favorite feature of my favorite Canon camera: the M6).
Presumably, in the M6 II, exposure compensation can be modified via turning the dial on the back of the camera (after pressing the dial near the 12 o'clock position)?
According to the manual, page 142, you can set the exposure compensation by pushing the shutter button halfway, then rotating the rear dial. (This sounds like it requires some dexterity, holding the grip and manipulating two controls simultaneously. I suspect I'll take a few pictures by accident while trying to hold the shutter button down whilst gripping and turning a dial.) Exposure compensation can also be done on the touch screen, but I find that less than satisfactory for a setting I might need to get to Right Freaking Now--and I suspect others here share that point of view.
On p. 107, program shift operates similarly, you have to hold the shutter down halfway, and simultaneously turn the FRONT dial--i.e., the dial you're partially blocking access to by pushing the concentric-with-it focus button halfway down! It sounds pretty clumsy, again. Hopefully the back button focus can sub for the shutter button in these two instances (since it does substitute for actual autofocus).
I'm not tooooo worried about this because I am sure buttons can be customized. But the additional dial from the M5 would be nice.
By the way this being my first new post here, I suppose I should say by way of introduction that I own both a T6i (750D) and an M50; I have been looking forward to the new m5/m6 for a multitude of reasons. I was hoping they'd have Fv mode--and the M6 does! Alas the new M6 does not have the flippy screen--if it did, I'd just buy it (perhaps after waiting a couple of months for the price to relax a bit), even sucking up the extra 250 or so for the EVF. It DOES take the same battery my T6i does; so I would start out with four spare batteries! I guess I will wait on the M5 II in the hopes of getting the screen. (I hope it continues to use the LP-17.)
(I'm aware that I could get the EVF for "free" by buying one of the two packages with a kit lens, however, I've never used the 15-45 mm that came with the M50, so I surely won't use another one! And the 15-150 option, though superficially more appealing, is redundant because I actually have the Tamron 18-200 made for the M mount. I suppose I could make one of these two purchases over the counter, and immediately sell the kit lens back to the camera shop, if by doing so I will reduce the price of the EVF at all.)
Side note: The Fv mode lets you readily change any/all of the exposure triangle; it will do auto on whatever you don't change. It will show you that, by putting AUTO in a box and underlining AUTO like this
AUTO. So you're being told twice: once by the word AUTO and the other by the underline that the camera has "got it." I'd personally rather see what the camera intends to do. How about showing me the value the camera intends to use, and underlining it, e.g.,
F11? That way, I can still see the camera intends to pick that setting for me and I can decide to adjust it if I want.