Canon did not keep the price the same. The original M50 sold for $779. This one is $180 cheaper. ($200 cheaper with the kit lens) And yet CR gear-heads expected all sort of high-level improvements.
It's an entry level camera. Is that too hard to understand for gear-heads? The target market cares about a cheap camera, easy to use for stills and simple video. Small and light. A couple lenses that cover from wide to moderate telephoto, yet keep the small and light form factor. That's what they want and that's what Canon gives them.
This reply misses the point for me.
M200 is entry level, the M50 is the next step up. In Canons own words its a
premium entry level
We can't say for certain but it looks like the MKii is the same camera. By that I mean it is potentially the
same camera. We already know it uses the same sensor and the same Digic processor. Yes it may be cheaper than the original M50 (although those prices don't tally with what I remember in the UK) but how is that a plus point? The technology is two years old, it certainly should be cheaper!
Yes people may been caught dreaming about the rumoured specs, but this Mkii just looks like a firmware update and a rebadge.
That, to me, isn't good enough.
I would be very interested to see a teardown of this "new" camera to see if my assumptions are correct.
I would also be
very interested in someone with far more technical skills than me get their hands on the firmware the Mkii runs on (or a modified version) and tests it on the M50 Mki.