I am writing this review almost a full year after purchase. I used this camera primarily for video and vlogging and it has been absolutely great! I was a complete beginner at videos at the time and I was looking for a camera that was easy to use and had good auto focus. This camera has delivered on all. I am aware that people are saying the auto focus isn’t that good in 4K and the crop makes the 4K totally useless. But I feel like they are comparing these features to a camera that probably costs 1k-2k more than this camera, so of course that will be the case. I have used the 4K and there is a crop but I love shooting videos and I made it work and it’s really not that big a deal. It also depends on what you are using this camera for. For vlogging and most videos that a beginner would shoot, this camera is perfect. For the highly critical enthusiast and professional filmmakers doing professional work, this camera won’t cut it. But it’s not SUPPOSED TO,this is a 650 dollar camera.The menus are easy to navigate and after about 4 months of playing around, I have learned the ins and outs of this camera like the back of my hand. I feel like now it’s time to graduate to a new camera but I am still keeping this camera for vlogging purposes because it’s great for that and it’s super lightweight and small. Lastly, the lense selection is not that extensive so I actually just used the kit lense and that’s it. I did this because I knew I would eventually buy a more expensive camera so I didn’t invest heavily in lenses for this camera and the kit lense is actually pretty versatile. Lastly, if you are a beginner like I was and you are thinking you need all these features, DCI 4K/8k or just an expensive camera to make things look good, you don’t. There are so many other factors like lighting and color grading etc that come into play. You won’t be able to appreciate or use the features of a more expensive camera to its fullest potential until you first gain the knowledge to do so. Just like a more expensive guitar won’t make a guitarist better at playing. More expensive cameras usually have a higher learning curve and some even make you pull manual focus so why not start with something that you can fire up and start making content with rather than spending 3 times as much money only to get your camera in and have to learn massive amounts of info before you can even use it? All in all, this a great camera for the price. If you are a beginner, you will love this camera. At the end of the day, this camera accomplishes exactly what it set out to accomplish and it is easy on the wallet. The video is also stellar and in my opinion is miles better than filming with your phone. If you are a beginner, I have hard time believing that you will be disappointed with the quality of videos that come from this camera. Happy Filmmaking
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Sony has made a loud-explosive bang on the camera industry with its mirrorless full frame cameras. While the Canon M50 doesn’t offer a full frame sensor, this small mirrorless camera PACKS a FULL PUNCH!Quite possibly the most underrated, and least spoken of camera on the market today! Unlike its traditional DSLR older brothers this new small Canon mirrorless covers 80% of its auto focus area (not just 19-65 cross points!), using the classic, and hands down best auto focus system in the camera market, with its “dual pixel auto focus”.When compared to my Canon t6i crop sensor digic 6 24.2mp this new digic 8 24.2mp is quite noticeably sharper, and colors are cleaner, brighter, and skin tones are just brilliantly smooth and pure! The flip out, fully articulating screen has the best touch screen in the camera industry, and offers functionality like; touch to auto focus, touch to snap a pic, move points of auto focus, and much more.The battery in this camera is small, but last very long! After one hour of shooting 4K still had a full charge!Micro HDMI out which is great if you want to par with a monitor or OBS self recording for live videos.Video format: IPB only.Video recording: 1080p up to 60fps and 4K 24fps. (While shooting in 4K there is a lost of dual pixel auto focus, and the camera switches to contrast auto focus. Also while shooting in 4K there is a 2.65 crop.)Picture. Does Raw and JPEG or RAW +JPEG up to a 6K equivalent image.Suggestions: buy this with the Canon EFM to EF adapter as there aren’t many EFM lens options. But there are plenty of EF budget lenses. My recommended favorite is Sigmas 18-35mm art, gives you a full frame picture look, with amazing depth of field!Negatives: in my opinion there aren’t any, if you consider the price for what you are getting. However,• 4K is cropped w/o the use of DPAF.• Single memory card slot.• Not to many lens options.• Grip is smaller than DSLR.• No headphone input.
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Flavio Barros
Uma excelente câmera de entrada.
Reviewed in Brazil on August 12, 2023
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Reviewed in Brazil on August 12, 2023
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Sergio R.
Versátil, compacta y ligera
Reviewed in Mexico on October 27, 2020
Sergio R.
Reviewed in Mexico on October 27, 2020
Si bien no es tan robusta como una DSLR, es muy ligera y facil de transportar, al ser mirrorles, te da buena velocidad de disparo en ráfaga. En mi caso será mas usada para vlogging pero me gusta la versatilidad para hacer buenas fotos y video en HD o UHD.
Pros:
- Incluye un lente bastante versatil.
- Tiene jack de 3.5 mm para micrófono.
- La pantalla se puede deplegar
- Se puede usar como cámara para streaming, se puede comprar un adaptador de carga.
- Incluye modo automático y manuale para foto y video.
Contras
- La batería dura poco y necesitarás más
- Para usar más opciones de lentes necesitas un adaptador de EF a EF-M
- Si no sabes nada técnico de fotografía no le podrás sacar todo el provecho.
Finalmente:
Por el precio, en la caja estaría bien que por lo menos viniera una funda de tela y el manual en español.
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