josephandrews222 said:
1. How does this combination 'handle ' (i.e. feel in your hands while shooting)?
2. The images that result--how are they? Contrasty enough for you?
3. When using the 18-150mm with the M6/M5, do you have/use the (optional with M6) viewfinder?
I have an M5, answers to specific questions below:
1. Overall, good. Its a little front heavy, but very comfortable to use.
2. I'm very happy with the IQ of the 18-150mm! Last spring I owned all the EF-M zooms (18-55, 55-200, 18-150) and did extensive side-by-side testing. Overall, I felt the IQ was close enough that I didn't need to keep the 18-55 and 55-200. I found my copy to be as good as the other zooms (in combination) between 18 and 100mm, with the 55-200 having a slight advantage in sharpness and contrast between 100-150mm.
3. I use the EVF probably 60% of the time and it works well. I tend to use the tilt screen quite a bit for down-low and over the head shooting.
AlanF said:
I just posted this on another thread about relying on just one testing site. I had rejected the 18-150mm as the IQ on TDP is just dreadful on the TDP site
Fortunately, I didn't see the TDP results until
after I already owned a 18-150, or else I probably would not have purchased one. My copy of the lens is
considerably sharper with better contrast than the copy TDP tested. From other comments on-line I get the impression TDP had a bad copy rather than mine being unusually good.
josephandrews222 said:
My own peeping (using the same site) tells me that the 'first-generation' EF-M lenses (the 22mm, the 18-55mm, and even the 55-200mm version) are superior to all of the other EF-M lenses...with the 11-22mm also quite good.
Specifically the 15-45mm not as good as the 18-55mm (in terms of image quality), and the 18-150's image quality seems to be lesser than the 55-200.
In my experience, the 15-45 is the only poor performer in the EF-M ranks. I have not tried the 28mm macro, but among the other EF-M lenses, I've found 22/2 and 11-22 to have the best IQ followed by the 55-200, 18-150 and 18-55 in that order. There is a considerable drop off from these lenses to the 15-45, which brings up the rear.