M5 EVF blackout during burst shooting

some of a bit more encouraging evidence, done with many Canon 'white whale' Ls, and in bad light too

jpr2

Helen wrote:

MedicineMan999 wrote:

Helen wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

As much as I would love the M5 to be a wunder kamera when paired with the 400/5.6, I'm keeping my expectations pretty low (mainly to preserve my sanity). My hope is that it'll at least keep general panning shots in focus. For the really tough stuff, I'm still keeping my DSLR around, at least for now. Maybe in a few years as processors speed up, we'll get our dream mirrorless action shooter. But for now...

Come on M5, prove me wrong!!!

R2

From messing around with my EF-S 55-250mm IS STM at the weekend, I found the EOS M5's continuous AF performance to be pretty much typical of a decent modern mirrorless camera that only uses CDAF (oddly, given the Dual Pixel business - I'd expected more). So it felt comparable to, say, an Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II, and not quite as swift as a Sony a6300, a Panasonic G80 coupled with a Panasonic lens (and so using their DFD system), or an Olympus OM-D E-M1 when set up to activate its PDAF system, for example.

Consequently, occasionally able to lock onto a bird in flight quickly enough to give a sharp shot, but prone to scanning through the focus range first in a maddeningly leisurely fashion. In other words, nothing like a DSLR (I am more of a mirrorless fan in general than a DSLR user, but am fully aware that even cheap DSLRs are still more rapid for fast-moving continuous AF, so I keep one handy ). Even the somewhat-faster mirrorless cameras listed above don't seem able to keep up with a DSLR (at least with the lenses I have access to).

Thanks for your honest impression and gently letting me down. I won't give up complete hope until I connect the the M5 to the 400/5.6 but hope is now tempered. CDAF is functional for BIF/sports/etc. but marginally so and will time invested in the shot. I've BIF's with GH4 and GX8 and it's just a matter that those two (and I'm sure many other mFTs) just single focus so fast and the BIFs obtained with them were panning with decent sized birds. Here is an example via the GX8 if bored-

https://www.flickr.com/photos/medicineman4040/25701586694/in/album-72157662992337134/

I still carry the GX8 daily everywhere (along with an RX100v) but the GX8 is soon to be replaced with the OMD M1 Mk ii just for the PDAF spots. I do agree, with Dual Pixel one would think it would be getting very close if not equalling PDAF.

All that said, for me, the effective 640mm with M5+400/5.6 still represents one of the lightest most compact rigs with the relatively largest sensor(APS-C).

Should know by next week as U.S. ship date still listed as two days from now. I'll miss the early kickoff though, headed to Florida before it ships so it will languish at the UPS center for my return.

To be fair to the EOS M5, like most mirrorless cameras, it is much faster in single AF than continuous. In fact, the speed is practically indistinguishable then from most modern, good mirrorless cameras. I have noticed one characteristic it shares with the Olympus Pen-F - when fitted with a typical, moderate-maximum aperture kit zoom, it does struggle to get an AF lock on warm-coloured subjects in artificial light (with the AF illuminator off), when similar cameras can still manage to swiftly lock.