Hey, this is Scott of Banzai, Today I'm gonna talk about all the benefits and
features I found really useful on the Canon EOS M50. Things I like about the
camera. I made a video about the negatives, but this time we're gonna go into the
really good stuff. Let's get started!
The most obvious benefit of this camera
is in the price considering all the features that it has. Of course we'll get
to the features in detail, but looking at the price and what I've gotten out of
this camera use wise with video and photos... I really do think it's a good value.
The most obvious benefit of this camera
besides the price is that it is a mirrorless camera. With that you have the
electronic viewfinder. What you see is what you get. Especially if used the
depth of field preview to see that with your aperture. Plus the exposure in the
viewfinder on the screen. It looks very good. Both of those and really in general
you get all those benefits. You get the shorter registration distance on the
camera. So you can adapt a lot of different lenses to the system. Again
with that, you have peaking which I think is a really good implementation of this...
considering the price especially. And it also has a zoom in features on that.
So using manual glass what this camera is very easy in general. Works pretty well.
Ergonomics wise, I think it is a good camera for portability. It's relatively
compact. Actually the grip is not bad considering the size of the camera.
Of course my hands are relatively thin and long. But the grip I think works pretty
well with this camera. Of course I would like it a little bit taller, but
you know personal and preferences, so... In general, you got a lot of controls around
here to use with your one hand. So they did really think about ability to use
the camera with one hand, which works pretty well.
You can actually control a
lot of the settings through buttons if you want to. I think it's a little bit
slower with the buttons. But the touch screen is also an option. So you do have
a lot of options with control based on what you prefer.
With the buttons, you can actually configure quite a few of them to do
different things and that gives you a lot of versatility. For example, with the
MF and button on the top.. You can have it turn the back screen off to save power.
You can have it cycle between the screen of viewfinder if you don't want to use
the automatic switching. But still a lot of options with control.
One of the most
obvious benefits with this camera is the LCD screen. It's fully articulating. You
can use it in whatever direction and angle you want. If you want to selfie
stuff or if you want above/below shots with photography.. You've got those angles
to work with very easily.
You can also put it backwards to just use the
viewfinder and this camera automatically only uses the viewfinder when you have
it like this. So it's convenient and it works well, so you don't accidentally
touch the touchscreen.
Again with the screen the interface for everything is
touch capable. It's quick and easy to use. Every setting for the most part.. You can
just easily do it with a touch screen or buttons. And that's one of the big
benefits of this camera, and Canon in general... Is that they really did a good
job with touch capability on the camera. It's similar to phones and things of
that nature.
If you do video stuff with the camera you have a lot of benefits
with this camera. The autofocus in video is very very good especially with the
native lenses. But there really aren't too many differences with non-native.. The
EF lenses with the adapter. Those also seem to work really well. I only have one
lens that is EF at the moment, but it works decently well.
You have the mic
port of course to push audio into the camera. And I have that set manually and
haven't had any issues. I'm doing that right now with the camera filming myself.
And I have a microphone up here. You do have the picture profiles. I haven't
really used them too much, but that gives you options to adjust the picture if you
want a little flatter of a profile. You can do it in the camera.
I think autofocus in this camera is a big benefit.
It works really well in my use on photos and videos. But with the photos
it seems pretty quick. It gives you almost the entire screen to put focus
points on. Which that means I don't have to do the focus and re-compose. Which I
used to do a lot with my DSLRs to my detriment with focus. This way you get
the critical focus you don't have to adjust your lenses to work with the
camera...
With action photography, I think this camera is pretty good actually.
Especially considering the price. With touch & drag on the screen itself to
use say.. zone AF mode and also servo. I think it's a good option and it's
relatively quick. The burst rate is actually fast, but of course the buffer
is not huge on this camera. In general, I think it's a decent option for the
action stuff.
The M50 has a huge amount of connectivity options. You have Wi-Fi.
You have Bluetooth. You have the phone apps which I've used a lot with my video
work. But of course it works well with photos. In there you can transfer files
to the phone. You can actually transfer files to computers. Which I use quite a
bit wirelessly. Also, you can use the USB to control the camera. To transfer
files. So many options with connectivity on this camera.
One of the not so obvious
things about this camera is that all of the features that it does. They
work well enough that they get out of your way, for the most part. What I mean
is that when you want to do photos. Or when you want to do videos... You set it up
and it generally works really well in that task, in that situation. With the
video stuff autofocus is so good that I just set the camera up it does its thing...
And I don't have to micromanage it. That's a huge benefit, especially
considering the price of the camera. The same thing with photos. Autofocus is so
good in many situations. Of course it's not perfect, but it's really good where I
don't have to worry about trying to recompose my photos. I can easily select
exactly where I wanted to focus. And even adapting lenses it focuses really well.
And even with the manual lenses it gives you those features like peaking.. zooming
in.. that worked well enough and they're very
easy to see in the viewfinder or on the screen. That makes it very easy, in
general, to use manual glass. So...
It's really in usability and then considering the
price I think it's a good value. Of course in what I do specifically... I do a lot of
video. Having two cameras. Especially two of the same camera is a huge benefit and
I do have the M100. That is not as feature full as these M50s. But in
general the M50 has so many nice decent features that are usable and considering
the price it's a great camera.
So anyways, I hope you enjoyed this video.
I'm Scott from Photography Banzai.
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