jrfoto53

I don't see why a person using an SLR looks like an idiot. Conspicuous, maybe, but an idiot???

I agree re. big lenses on small bodies. However, Canon did produce the 40mm pancake a little while ago. A couple more such lenses and they'll be in the game. A 100D with 22m and 40mm pancakes...

I totally fail to see why the looks are relevant. It's a clean and neat design and it's tool for taking pictures. That's it. It is not a sculture to put on display or anything.

I'd like to see another model with a viewfinder as well. However, I find EVFs poor and would like to see something like the Fuji hybrid viewfinder.

I know what you mean, but maybe there will be more EOS M models in future?

Except that not everyone wants to have the flash installed all the time, nor use it very much. On-camera flash is a killer.
Canon themselves suggest that the high-ISO performance means the flash...

It can be manually focussed fairly easily. The focussing ring is quite thin, but it works well enough.

Absolutely. I have one for use on my 5D and it works very well with this camera. On an APS-C body it would be equiv. of a short telephoto and not as much use, to my mind. It wouldn't work on a...

I will undoubtedly get one of these lenses.

However, I am a bit disappointed to see that it will cost $200 in the USA, but the equivalent of over $300 in Europe where I live.

No, not at all. A full frame camera is not 'big'. It is bigger than an APS body but still not 'big'. The main impediment to carrying an SLR around alot is the huge lens sticking out of the front....

Maybe you can explain what you are getting at?

Absolutely. .... and the pancake lens is not so intimidating or obvious as a big zoom.