Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
In this video I'm going to go over the E-FM 55 to
200 millimeter f4.5 to 6.3 lens for the E-FM system. It's one of the few
native options in this system. The nice thing about this lens, it's relatively
inexpensive and does have image stabilisation. Now, it is a pretty slow
lens, but it is compact. So you have to trade off some speed with the lens for
the small size. I always like smaller lenses when I have that option.
The lens can focus as close as 3.3 feet or 1 meter.
It does have rounded aperture blades, which is very appealing for backgrounds.
If you have a point source of light... You'll get a rounded source of light
instead of maybe like a hexagon, or octagon, or something like that.
That's really my preferred look is the nice rounded point source lights. When I
first got this lens I took it out to my local state park. You have a lot of
different options with composition with a telephoto lens like this. Of course, you
can go at 55 if you want, but I was using it a lot with the 200 millimeters. Just a
slight change in your position will give you a fully different photo. You can
basically take little chunks little pieces of a scene and really utilize
that area. Settings wise for that outing I was using mostly Tv mode with
1/250th of a second. Now, it's a little slow considering this is a crop camera. But
you do have the image stabilization and I wasn't photographing much in the way
of moving subjects. What you can do with that setup is press the plus minus
button on the d-pad to switch to exposure compensation. That way you can
quickly adjust things without having to change your shutter speed much. That will
allow you to use the main dial to adjust the overall exposure instead of getting
really deep into the settings. A little bit more convenient. With a telephoto
lens like this, usually you want to be using the viewfinder. In my case I have a
pretty large nose, so sometimes my nose was touching the screen and changing my
focus point. It got a little irritating at the State Park, but I did manage to
get around it most of the time. Of course that's more related to the camera than
the lens. Over the years I have used a lot of basic telephoto kit lenses like
this. Now, this one seems to be higher quality from an image standpoint than
some of those definitely. That's a good thing for this. Especially backgrounds
are pretty smooth I do like how those render.
I did use this lens at that cosplay photo shoot. It was darker conditions
most of the time. Very windy... We were inside with the horse. It was a challenge
for the M50 with its sensor that isn't super great with high ISO. The lens does
focus pretty quickly it's very silent. In decent lighting. no issues at all. But
when you do go into darker conditions, indoor conditions, you will potentially
have some challenges with focusing. When I was trying to get snow photos with one
of the cosplayers I was at the 200 millimeters. With that you have f6.3, so
really challenging for the camera. In that case I did a mixture of higher
shutter speeds, which was the ideal thing in that situation. But I also did some
lower shutter speeds, and the image stabilization worked out pretty well in
that case. In one situation I had 1/60th of a second and it was still a
sharp photo. Now, it's good to have a mix of different options. In that case the
image stabilization does help out quite a bit. A few negatives is the lens. One is
with build quality. It has a plastic mount. With a telephoto lens I would
really prefer having a metal mount. It also doesn't have any type of switch to
lock down the zoom. Also, the long range of the lenses is at f6.3 200 milliliters. Now,
that is slower than a lot of EF lenses. The main positives of this lens is with
the size. It's very compact. Autofocus motor is very quiet, it's pretty quick.
I haven't had any issues with that, and also backgrounds are smooth. I really
like how those render out. Now, you can definitely consider the EF lenses.
You'll potentially get more range. A lot of those are 300 milliliters, and a
faster aperture. But if you want compact, and you want native for video especially...
This is a decent option. So that was a quick look at the EF-M 55 to 200
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