Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Recently a viewer named Alvin asked me about stabilization
with the EF-M 32mm lens. Sounded like a good idea. I'm gonna take it a
step further with all the lenses for the EF-M system that I have.
I took them out to my local state park.
Did a bunch of testing with everything. We've got the
11 to 22. We have the 32mm lens. We have the 15 to 45 kit lens, 22mm
f/2 lens, and also 55 to 200mm lens. Throughout all the lenses the
settings were very similar. Basically 24 frames a second approximately. We have
1/50th of a second shutter speed. ISO 100. Aperture of F/5.6 for most of
them. With the two different zoom lenses at the maximum zoom... I did do a test with
the minimum and maximum zoom on all the zoom lenses. Basically, it starts at F/6.3
instead of 5.6. Those videos will be a little bit darker because I had all the
settings the same. I didn't change anything else. With each lens I did no
stabilization, optical stabilization if available, digital, and enhanced. Also keep
in mind with the M50 when you set digital stabilization the optical goes on
automatically if the lens does have that.
Anyways, let's get started!
11-22 at 11mm...
11-22 and 22mm...
32mm lens...
15-45 at 15mm...
15-45 at 45mm F/6.3...
22mm lens...
55-200 at 55mm...
55-200 at 200mm F/6.3...
After the main test I use just the 32mm lens with other testing. Kind
of more normal situations. Basically hand-holding. Getting scenes. Doing a
little bit of panning. Do some vlogging...
Now that you've seen the footage. Let's go over the results. At least what I saw.
You might see things that I missed. Basically, if you have optical
stabilization in the lens that's what you want to use just by itself. You don't
need anything else. It looks good. You have the full frame. You don't lose any
information. But if you don't have stabilization in the lens I think
digital in the M50 is decent. It looks pretty good.
Some situations where there's a lot of motion, you get a weird look to the image.
Or basically video... But overall, I think digital is decent for the most part. Now,
with the enhanced stabilization I think it can be useful in some situations. But
you get the big crop. You lose a lot of image quality. You get a really extreme
look when there's a lot of motion in the video. That's not good. And I also put
some of the Vegas Pro 15 stabilizer in there with the software. And that had
some issues. Actually, with one of the clips it kept jumping. So if you want to
compare enhanced with some type of software solution. Enhanced might be a
good option if that's all you've got, or if your stabilizer software is not good.
Especially with the lenses with no optical stabilization I think just going
straight with no digital is a good option if your software for stabilizing
is high quality. Just things to consider. I would prefer to have the most frame as
possible because that just gives me more information to use. That's it for the
video. I hope you found it useful and informative. There are so many variables
in tests like this. I mean, basically, I should have gone on more flat ground for
the standard tests, in my opinion. But you do get some decent results in this case.
At least good enough to get a feel for the different stabilizer options. If you want
to see all the footage full-frame... I have a unlisted video you can check out. I'll
put it in the description. I'll put it in a card. I'll put it in the end screen if
you want to look at that. It's pretty long and it's very dry, but it's in there.
And it's basically all the clips individually one by one that you
look at. You'll get the full view of quality and everything like that. You can
share that if you want. I just made it unlisted because I don't want it to show
up to subscribers and things like that. Again, thanks for checking out my videos.
I'm Scott from from Photography Banzai.
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