Canon’s New M50 is a Bit More Exciting Than Their New Rebel T7

Last Updated on 02/26/2018 by Mark Beckenbach

The Canon M50 and Canon Rebel T7 are two of the company’s latest cameras.

Let me get the less exciting product straight out of the way: the new Canon Rebel T7 is literally the Canon Rebel T6 but with a 24.1MP APS-C sensor. Why? Maybe it’s just Canon trying to find a way to increase profits and not spend a lot of money. But with more megapixels on that sensor, the built in DIGIC 4 processor may struggle to catch up. However, with the new Canon M50, we’re actually seeing a whole lot of new (and in some ways a few strange) things.

Let’s start with the strange: there’s a silent shutter in the camera, but it’s built into a scene mode. That scene mode gives you no control over the exposure but lets you shoot in RAW. Then, there has been a big revamp to Dual Pixel AF–but only some of the lenses will be receiving the most that the system has to offer. With the Canon M50, some lenses won’t be able to use 100% of the camera’s focusing area and will be locked into 99 af points. But when you use other lenses, you’ll instead get access to 143 focusing points.

Most notable though is that there is a brand new RAW format. Canon is changing their format from CR2 to CR3. And what that also means is that the types of RAW files are changing. There is regular RAW and what’s now being called C-Raw. C-Raw is a format between medium and between small raw. You get the same number of pixels in the image but some of the information is stripped away. Why? I’m not sure.

Oh yeah, and the Canon M50 has 4K video. Finally!

Canon Rebel T7

• The most bottom of the level camera
• 24.1mp sensor
• Digic 4 processor
• 3fps
• It’s the same camera as the T6

Canon M50

• Vari angle lcd
• Touch screen
• EVF
• 4K video at 24p
• White or black
• Digic 8 processor
• Advanced autofocus improved over the M5
• 99 af points minimum
• 80×80 area coverage of the af
• 143 points with select lenses that cover the entire area of the sensor
• Dual pixel CMOSs AF, much improved
• Eye detection AF in one shot but not Servo AF
• 7.4 FPS. One shot af is 10fps
• 24.1mp APSC. Less noise and high definition in low light
• 4K 24p. Contrast AF for 4K
• Full HD autofocus is dual pixel AF. But 4K is contrast
• HD at 120p
• Touch and drag AF on the LCD
• WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC
• Automatically transfer while shooting but only in the auto send mode. This is a really cool feature.
• In camera raw development.
• Silent mode, scene mode that doesn’t let you have manual control over he exposure. But you get raw photos
• CR3: this gives you raw and c-raw. C raw is between small and medium
• C-RAW images are 40% smaller but the same pixel size.