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Who is happy with your new M3?

Started Apr 5, 2015 | Discussions thread
Mr Grinch Contributing Member • Posts: 646
Re: Who is happy with your new M3?
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verum lens wrote:

zonaboy wrote:

Jury is still out for me. Most of the gripes I have so far are varying degrees of usability issues discovered through ad-hoc testing. Some I'll learn to live with, and others I hope will be fixed by Canon. I finally had a chance to get out of the house and field test the M3's image quality yesterday. Here's a few from that set...

Image wise, the main difference I'm seeing is that auto white balance doesn't seem to be as accurate as the M (and shifts quite a bit for multiple photos of the same scene), and colors needing a bit more 'boost' than I'm accustomed to in post. All images shot in RAW and converted to 16bit TIFFs with DPP 4.2.10.0, noise reduction and sharpening zero'd out. Processing done in Lightroom 4.4, to my taste.

This is in line with my experience. I've had to adjust white balance more often in photos from my M3 than I had to with my M.

AWB in bright, blue sky sunshine is a bit warm. Experimenting with other modes at the moment, including using a WB offset which works fine with a shift towards blue. Not a big deal.

The M3 is quicker handling than the M with faster AF. It seems to lock on lower contrast than the M and the EVF and focus peaking make MF useable.

So far, I've only tried the 11-22, 55-200 and 22 M natives.  I was able to get 100% focus locks on a sleeping yellow Labrador retriever lit by an incandescent lamp. The M struggled with that environment, and it is wonderful to have a pop up flash to fill in that sort of context as well .

The camera is a keeper.

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