Re: Are you pre-ordering the M5?
I will almost certainly buy this camera, still undecided about pre-ordering it.
I'll wait for a few detailed reviews, but what I'm expecting is an 80D in a mirrorless body. Providing there aren't any serious, unforeseen, problems with shoehorning a dslr into a mirrorless body (overheating processors/sensors type of thing, hello Sony?) then this is exactly what I was hoping for. I can understand the pricing, it's more camera than the rebels but less than an 80D (doesn't mean I have to like the pricing..).
I want something that focuses better than the M3, I love that little camera but it's fractionally too slow to get the moment for anything that's not sitting perfectly still.
I'm totally fine with adapting EF lenses onto a mirrorless, the way I see it, if you want a travel superzoom, get a superzoom. The point of an interchangeable lens camera is that you have specific lenses for specific shooting conditions. But I still want to have my cake and eat it, so for the mirrorless I want something smaller than a DSLR and equivalent DSLR lenses that I can have in my backpack with me all the time. I don't need my whole lens collection to be tiny, just the 2 or 3 lenses I haul around with me for everyday shooting. That doesn't stop me from having a few big specialist lenses for specific situations on top of that, but I'm fine with the reality that good quality fast glass is big. No matter how much I want it to be so, I don't think physics will let me have a full frame camera, a 70-200 f/2.8IS, 16-35 f/2.8, 50 f1.2 and maybe a 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 in a package less than a 1kg. I can get my M3, 22f/2 11-22 and 55-200 in at under a kilo for hauling around every day and then pull out a 70-200 for when I want to impress my friends. That being said I would love a few fast M mount primes, but I can live with adapting them for now.
I think I went off on a tangent there, providing there aren't any nasty surprises, I will probably pre-order the M5, the end of November is still a way off so I don't have to make up my mind quite yet. It's pretty much exactly what I want from a mirrorless system, small but capable body (I'm looking at you M3 focus speed) with a few good small lenses (hello 11-22) for carrying every day and the option of a massive range of specialist lenses for specific conditions that I don't necessarily have to have on my person at all times.