Not sure it is exactly the same sensor, but if so, the R7 processor is able to do a lot more with it, particularly with respect to video and the IBIS is a big deal, but the M6II still does take excellent stills and sometimes size matters. I find the R7 to be far more capbale with long lenses, but for stills with the nearly identical kit lens, there isn't that much difference. Also, I have all the M lenses and the the M6 II with all the lenses fits in a very small package so it is still my travel pack of choice. I have a very good copy of the newFD 500mm mirror that fits in the pack without adding much weigh if I need reach.
I find the Prius has remarkable mpg cruising at 70 mph, maybe due to a very low drag factor. I average pretty close to 60 to the imperial gallon despite using the car mainly for long distance birding excursions but cycling in town, despite my age.
Thanks, No, I wasn't driving. I had been taking some shots of the sunset outside the car (standing in a stiff wind) and then we drove off. About a half mile down the road, the scene changed (for the better) but there was no place to turn off so I took the shot through the window. The upside was that I had already set the camera to shutter priority and 1/320 due the wind I had been standing in. The lens was at the short end, so it gave me f/3.5 and ISO 200, which made the image very processable, particuarly with the help of DXO PL6. The relatively short shutter and wide angle nulified the car motion qutite well. In the end, it was a lucky shot as I would not have had time to set the mode of camera if hadn't been preset earlier. The picture is particularly intense viewed on an HDR monitor.Really nice photo! And I know how difficult it is to take pictures out of a moving car. I hope, you weren't the driver
Colour, contrast and texture reminds me of some oil painting from the romanticism.
I think there is a bit more nuance to Canon's decision than simply trying to force everbody into the RF mount. The M system was developed by the Powershot group and since there is now very little market for P&S cameras, it appears that that group is for the most part disbanded. There was tremendous user pressure on Canon to update the 7DII in an R body, which necessitated supporting APS-c in the RF line. The R7 is the response to that demand (and a good response). Further, to be competitive, higher end APS-c bodies (like the R7) needed to support IBIS. The small battery that was key to keeping the M cameras small was not up to the task of running Canon's IBIS system with reasonable battery life. So now we have the R7 and R10 (and soon the R50). It is worth note that the R10 is a couple of ounces lighter than the Sony a6600 (but without IBIS and still with the small battery). In the current shrunken camera market, it simply doesn't make economic sense to support two disparate AP-c lines, so it is almost certain that the M series will fade away as did the Nikon 1 and several other early attempts in the mirrorless transistion. Given that the M series has been a top seller, particularly in Japan, I have to believe that Canon's decision to move to R was not an easy one internally. You may be disappointed with the fading way of the M line (as am I), but it is useful to apply some perspective before reacting.
This is how I feel about it. I express my irritation with Canon's decisions on the M mount and people reply with...Canon's business case. Which, cool, I mean I could figure that out for myself and didn't ask for it, but whatever. Companies do not make product line decisions based on what they believe is best for me, the customer, they make them based on what they believe is best for their bottom line. By the same token I do not make my buying decisions based on what is best for the companies involved, I make them based on what the best options are for me.
All well and good. You are fully entitled to your decisions, but your decision to continue haunting a Canon site is a bit puzzling unless you we now have Fuji Trolls to supplement the Sony Trolls
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I paid for Gold, there are people here I like, and I still have a fondness for the M mount, which you'll notice is where I typically haunt. In fact I like the M mount so much I recently bought my original M50 back from the person I sold it to after they moved to Fuji as well.All well and good. You are fully entitled to your decisions, but your decision to continue haunting a Canon site is a bit puzzling unless you we now have Fuji Trolls to supplement the Sony Trolls
Actually, in the end, their business case is our business case in that if they don't survive, we have no support. Businesses have to make business decisions and some of them are inevitably not (at least short term) favorable to some customers. I also have An M3, and M6 II and all the M lenses. I gave my M5 to a granddaughter who is enjoying it immensely. Your focus on business being selfish and looking only at profit suggests you have never run a business and had to make hard desisions regarding same. I have, and can fully understand the no doubt painful process Canon went through making this decision. To say that Canon, the camera company with by far the best customer service in the industry, doesn't care about their customers is, at best, naive. Things-a-change and both businesses and individuals have to adapt or die.
Canon fully owns half the market. The entire photography market would have to die for Canon to be gone. Basing any argument on that is ridiculous when you are talking about the company nearly twice the size of it's nearest competitor. Furthermore Canon is well diversified, cameras are a minor part of their overall portfolio. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon, even if the whole market declined to just 1 million units, they would still sell nearly as many cameras as Fujifilm does every year based on market share. That concern only makes sense for small players like Panasonic or OM Systems.
You shouldn’t care.
Oh absolutely, and that's silly. They may or may not, I have no idea. My personal use case is anecdote, not data. And as I said they own half the market, they would have a *lot* of time to course correct if it proved detrimental. My only point is that as a now former customer their decisions about the M mount directly led to my departure, and the blockage of third party lenses reinforced that it was the right move. How many others feel that way I couldn't say, but even if Fuji doubled it's market share purely due to M mount switchers it would be barely a rounding error to Canon.
