MannyV
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EOS-M5 - 15-45mm Plus EF/S lenses and other tests - very happy
Dec 29, 2016
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I got my EOS-M5 a week ago. I got the kit with 15-45mm lens. Since I am in Canada, I had ordered mine from Don's photo. roughly a month ago. Don's photo service was good. They bundled the EFM-EF/S adaptor, and Connect Station CS100.
Since then, I sold the CS100 already as I do not foresee using it.
In this one week, I tried the following
1. M5 with 15-45 lens - works great. Happy with it. I do see a lot of distortion which lightroom can correct to a large extent. I was able to open the M5 raw files in Lightroom and yes there is a profile correction for 15-45mm lens. Perhaps I have seen sharper lens. Yet I will use this lens as I have frequently wished for wider than 28mm in many situations. It does take well to sharpening and images do perk up quite a bit. So it is not a show stopper.
2. M5 with following EF/EF-S lenses. In general all lenses worked great. No indecisive hunting or back and forth as far as AF is concerned. Focus was quick, accurate, and spot on. I am very happy. Surprisingly, the AF was good with the Sigma and Tamron lens. The tamron lens I have is screwdriver type tech I think. So it makes buzzing sound when it focuses. However the AF was fast and accurate. Just that I have to be careful to not hold the focus ring accidentally. The AF speed and accuracy of 100-400mm both with and without 1.4X TC was icing on the cake for me. Also the balance of the lens, and usability at least in house looks ok to me. I am excited and can't wait for the snow to melt down here in Vancouver. We do have a challenge as most sidewalks are still covered in snow in the suburbs where I stay. I eagerly wait to test it in the field for subject tracking.
EF 50mm STM lens, EF-S 24mm STM EF-S 10-18mm STM, EF 100-400mm II with and without 1.4X TC III, EF-S 18-135mm STM USM Nano, Sigma 8-16mm, Tamron 17-0 f2.8 (non-IS)
3. FD / FL glass with EFM adaptor
With the focus peak in colour as well as magnify option, I found it fairly straightforward to focus manually. Lenses tried - Canon FD 50mm f1.4, Canon FD24mm f2.8, Canon FL 58mm f1.2
4. M42 glass with M42 to EF adaptor + EFM-EF/S adaptor stacked together
Sears 28mm f2.8, Russian lenses 37mm, 55mm, 85mm, 135mm
5. Battery - I have set the camera battery settings to Eco. Changed the menu display to conserve battery (night mode - whatever it is called - basically black background with orange red menu). Power save to 1 minute. With this setting, so far I am on my second battery and meter still shows full. File count is 1300 images. So realistically in the field, I can safely expect 500 to 600 pictures.
6. Image quality (IQ) - I have set auto-ISO to max at 6400. So far looking at the test images, the IQ is very good at various ISO settings including 6400. I can foresee capturing some memories with this lovely camera.
7. Handling - The camera feels good. I have average size hands. Most buttons are where they should be. Getting used to changing setting by touch and feel. The grip is just nice. EVF looks good to me. Didn't see any lag. I didn't go looking for lag in EVF and I didn't notice anything. I did bump the video recording unintentionally. So I will dig into settings and change the button. Overall it handles great. Can see myself loving it.
8. Speedlights - I have 580 EX II, 320 EX, 270 EX. I could not trigger wireless with built in flash. Mounted the 580 EX II on body and the magic of Canon lighting multiple flashes was available and worked well. I ordered 90EX flash as it can function as a master. That way I can utilize the 580EX II closer to subject for creativity. In a nutshell, it works and works quite well
Still testing. No outdoors tough test yet. However from the indoor tests thus far, I am very happy, impressed, and feel this is a great camera.
Will update another thread with my test outdoors when some snow melts.