The most underated great camera
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WEll, let me start with the obvious bad issues:
1. Slow AF performance, yes is slow than regular EOS cameras, even the single AF sensor 620 from 1988, with the firmware update the AF performance were improved, but still slow, personally not a big eal, I use an EOS 1Ds Mark III with an incredible fast AF speed, in contrast the EOS M is far behind, but I use on good day light conditions, for landscape and are fast enough
2. Short battery life expectancy, this issue, present on most of the mirrorlens cameras, for me represent the worst of the bad issues on this cameras, solution, use 2 or 3 batteries with me, but still, i hate to changue batteries, while my !Ds Mk III camera the battery last loooong time.
3. No EVF, not a big deal to me, EVF are still far behind optical viewfinders, only Fuji XT-1 are impresive, the rest...so.....(only if help to economize battery)
BUT apart from this issues, this camera are pretty impresive, the best image quality on mirrorless cameras, sorry Sony and Fuji, today you paid near nothing for this camera, like their other mirrorless sisters accepts ANY lens made via avaible adapters, are small, light (this can be a bad issue, light to carry on but no so stable when you shot with moderate tele lenses without tripos or monopod), the quality construction are pretty impresive, is metal, not plastic, is a heavy metal tiny camera, solid built, simple design but nicely made,a real jewel to see and feel on you hands.
The ergonomis and controls are very different from the regular EOS lineup, the touch screen works wonderfully, perhaps you need to tale some time to get accustomed but are a great feature, specially select the AF points on the liveview screen with a finger touch (great!!) go directly to the feature on the screen, touch it and voilá!
I love this camera, I have 3, 2 EOS M and 1 EOS M2 what a wonderful tool