Thread: Canon EOS-M Officially Announced

Originally Posted by Julien

This is why I wrote "as a 35mm (equiv.) shooter". If I shot a lot at any other focal length, I wouldn't find anything of interest in this new system.

LOL. When I saw 35 mm I thought it was a film reference.

Yeah, I understand the confusion. I should have put the "equiv." in the original sentence.

What the EOS-M looks like with all the available lenses attached.

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The lenses are so huge, but then even on a full frame body when the lenses get that big you are using a tripod and a lens mount.. still on the far side of the fence though.

Originally Posted by Boid

What the EOS-M looks like with all the available lenses attached.

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Ha, nice find!

Once Canon proves that their hybrid AF system can actually focus any of those lenses at a reasonable speed this demonstration may be a bit more relevant. So far I'm getting the impression that Canon will try to push the idea of the backwards compatibility of the EOS M more than any of the other mirrorless manufacturers have done so far.

There is some merit to pushing backwards compatibility. Seriously from what it sounds like that thing is comparable to the 4ti, only smaller. So for those that want a carry around that they can opt to occasionally put an eos lens on it's great. Stats outperform my xsi and having lenses could seal the deal if it's capable.

There is, although the experience from Micro 4/3 is that adapting the 4/3 DSLR lenses only had a brief period of popularity when there was a smaller choice in native lenses. It hardly gets a mention now. Adapting EF and EF-S lenses has been a huge talking point in the Canon forums like POTN, and I'm curious to see if the enthusiasm lasts amongst new EOS M owners once the cameras hit the street.

This display is SO Canon. "We're a big company and we can pump lenses out faster than anyone else". I'd just like to know what all that equipment costs. I'm happy to see Canon enter the CSC/MILC market because it ups the competition all around. I'm not a Canon fan at all, but this will shift some R&D funds into smaller systems.

Originally Posted by Olivier Duong

Like Wolfie said, the lack of controls gives up the target market. I'm ranting on do we seriously need another mount?

No, we need a semi-professional level body that takes EOS EF lenses directly (and a decent built in evf).

Originally Posted by Luckypenguin

There is, although the experience from Micro 4/3 is that adapting the 4/3 DSLR lenses only had a brief period of popularity when there was a smaller choice in native lenses. It hardly gets a mention now. Adapting EF and EF-S lenses has been a huge talking point in the Canon forums like POTN, and I'm curious to see if the enthusiasm lasts amongst new EOS M owners once the cameras hit the street.

Canon has a huge number of huge EOS EF lenses out there, that is my problem, but an even bigger problem for Canon. They can either continue and pretend that dlsr cameras will continue forever or start yet another size-range of lenses on a new mount and hope that their EF users will continue to use their lenses forever on dslr bodies. No bad thing at the moment but eventually someone with a dslr and EOS EF lens will start to have the street presence of a plate glass camera and light cloth.

So they start a new generation off on a nice but fairly lightweight EVIL-type camera and hope that by the time they are wealthy enough to afford a semi-professional camera that they will have kept up a supply of new lenses for this mount to keep them happy. Therefore look forward to the EOS EF lenses being obsoleted in time (horror). But a long time for sure, not going to over-worry me but maybe it should worry those that are considering setting up a stock of EOS EF lenses today?

A high performance semi-professional (largish) EVIL-type body from Canon with a high resolution, high performing evf would properly set the cat amongst the pigeons. I want one. Maybe too many would want one and the rest of the dslr offerings would get very shaky.