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Canon EOS M50 Mark II

Let’s save a lot of your reading time by getting this out the way early on; if you already own the Canon EOS M50, then the new Mark II version isn’t worth the upgrade. With the new version of the camera priced at £590 body only, there is a chance you may be able to sell the original camera for a fair price and pay a small difference for the upgraded features, but there really won’t be a real advantage for the majority of users. I’ll add a slight caveat to that which is that if you create video for TikTok or Instagram Reels, the addition of vertical video shooting and Eye AF, when shooting in Full HD, may make it worthy of consideration.

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That caveat tells you probably all you need to know about the target market for the updated Canon EOS M50; there is very little new here for photographers with the

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