Canon M50 Mark II
Canon EOS M50 Mark II
It’s as easy as falling off a vlog
IT’LL EVEN RECORD VERTICAL VIDEOS TO TOSS STRAIGHT INTO TIKTOK
£590 (body only) / canon.co.uk Whether your preferred form of expression is Tiktok, Twitch, Instagram or Youtube, Canon’s latest mirrorless camera is here to be your creative partner.
● I wanna be your vlog
Canon hasn’t always been the most enthusiastic of camera makers when it comes to boarding bandwagons. The company dragged its feet for years before releasing a decent mirrorless model, losing ground to Sony and Panasonic in the process. Thankfully, that timid approach appears to have gone out of the window, because the new Canon
EOS M50 Mark II is a 24.1MP APS-C mirrorless camera chasing after the trendiest demographic of all: aspiring content creators. It’s so eager to please that it’ll even record vertical videos, all the better to toss straight into your Tiktok account.
● Who let the vlogs out?
With eye and face-detection AF on board, snapping portraits or filming to-camera pieces should be a breeze, while flipping the vari-angle touchscreen to face the front will ensure your fizzog is in the frame for those delicious 4K and 1080p videos (the latter at up to 60fps). A clean HDMI output should suit the most demanding Youtube live streamers, while compatibility with Canon’s EOS Webcam Utility gives you the means to add extra gloss to your Zoom chat or Twitch stream.
● A vlog with two ticks
The EOS M50 Mark II also comes with a 3.5mm port for hooking up an external mic to record pristine audio, as well as Bluetooth and Wi-fi for transferring your fresh content to a phone or laptop right away. If you’re thinking a lot of mirrorless cameras have all the above, you’re right, but few do so at such an accessible price: at under £600, this is a cheap way to move into mirrorless. Now all you need is some surefire viral content…