Why would you buy EOS M5?

Nigel Tafferham wrote:

Glad to see the M5 but not interested, rather have a 80D ! Best of both worlds.

Small size but not much else or anything superior, and I suspect for a while the prices will effectively be almost same.

So still a personal pref thing - but glad an M can now focus !!!!!!

Even the original M focuses very well. Not lightning fast, but very accurate. And, it actually focuses faster than the vaunted A6300 for most of my uses. That's because the time between deciding what to focus on and taking the shot is a lot less with the M. I just tap on the screen with touch shutter enabled. With a camera without touchscreen, like the A6300, you have to move the focus spot to what you want using various directional keys. The A6300 may have lightning fast AF once the focus spot is over your subject, but the time it takes to move the focus spot is a lot more than the time it takes to tap on the screen of the M. Depending on how you use the camera, this can actually make the M a faster camera than the A6300. I know it sounds hard to believe, but it's true. Of course, if you don't like to move the focus spot around a lot, the A6300 will be faster, but I'm constantly moving the focus spot. The new feature on the M5 of using the screen to select the focus point while looking through the EVF is by far the most interesting aspect of the camera for me. All current cameras (with the same sensor size) give the same IQ, when used with equally good lenses. It's the usability features that really distinguish them.