Would you recommend the M10?

nnowak wrote:

Peter63 wrote:

nnowak wrote:

Peter63 wrote:

nnowak wrote:

meland wrote:

Lawrencew wrote:

meland wrote:

Tremint wrote:

Its for a small set of people who will take the pain (Its a pain) to use big lenses or people who want to use 11-22mm lens.

As long as Canon wont release good native lenses with apertures like 1.8 or 1.4, I wont recommend it.

I would recommend the Powershot G5X. Based on the functionality its a much better camera than EOS M10.

It's natural, because presumably you are one, but you're thinking just like an enthusiast. We're too focused on what we need.

The target market for this camera doesn't care about "native lenses with apertures like 1.8 or 1.4". They don't even know what those are or what they might use them for.

I don't disagree with you point that a G5X might be a more suitable camera for some people but not all and don't forget that there are a lot of people out there who would like the facility to change lenses. Even if the majority never end up doing so.

That seems a bit of a contradiction

They don't care about "apertures like 1.8 or 1.4". They don't even know what those are" but they do care about "the facility to change lenses"

If they don't know what apertures are I doubt they know much about why they would change lenses either. If they don't know what 1.8 or 1.4 means, would they know what 15 or 45 means (and that it is nothing to do with the realized focal length) ?

Many non-enthusiasts recognise that the ability to change lenses is somehow good. Not that most of them ever do it, or know anything about the alternative lenses, or what opportunities those lenses might provide.

What I hear more often is that they want to buy a 18-200 superzoom specifically so they don't have to change lenses.

That is not a disagreement with but instead it is a logical progression from the circumstance Meland mentioned.

I would suggest that it is more an indication that the person would have been happier with a G3x, FZ1000, or RX10 instead of an interchangeable lens camera.

I think that is more of an assumption than an indication, they might well be happier with the APS-C and an 18-200.

Assuming the Tamron EF-M 18-200 f3.5-6.3... All three bridge cameras are one stop slower at the wide end. At the tele end, the Sony is 2/3 of a stop faster (200mm), the Panasonic is 1/3 of a stop slower (400mm), and the Canon is 1-1/3 of a stop slower (600mm). There is less than 100 grams separating all four options.

I think I will pass on coming up with a contrasting list of specifications for an arbitrary group of cameras so that we can pass judgment on the choices that might be made by some theoretical group of consumers.

More so when a compact camera can already give them all the zoom range they are likely to want.

Of course.

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