Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 for EF-M sale

Lightgreen wrote:

Canon could make a digital version of said feature; they already overlay all kinds of data of choosing unto the EVF depending how you toggle it. A critical focus overlay would be very handy. There's no reason it can't be done digitally. And oh by the way, as a millennial, I've never heard of a split pentaprism for critical focus, darn handy if you ask me. Canon should totally bring it back as a digital option as that's one of the benefits of having a completely digital preview is you can add additional data to the viewing layout.

Also Canon hopefully will consider a larger EVF for future mirrorless offerings. I'd be willing to bet my arm or leg the upcoming FF mirrorless will have a larger EVF, but really I want one on my M5, which may never get a larger EVF as the point of the M format is compact but powerful which a larger EVF would go against the grain on. Probably a better one IE more nits, better refresh, etc etc (for any M5 refreshes) which would still be welcome of course.

Side note, off subject, but there's a thing or two my generation can learn from yours. It's truly a loss, the wealth of knowledge never got passed from the greatest generation to future ones. Some of us millennial have discovered there is nothing new under the sun, but, that in itself needs to be "re-found". Sometimes things don't need to be reinvented, the old still works just fine, and in many cases, better, than the new.

Oh, and not trying to sell you on an M5, but it should be noted the added dials and controls, with the EVF and deeper grip, definitely make for taking control much more pleasant then the original M, or any of the others Ms before it. I literally can map almost anything I desire. Few things I can't still, but eventually Canon will permit them in future offerings I feel. Touch and drag AF is also very useful, but needs to be refined further too, IMO.

The M5 is definitely on my wish list, I'm just waiting for a price drop or a decent sale. My sister recently bought one, and she seems happy with it. The next time I visit her, I plan to take a couple of FD lenses and the adapter with me, so that I can try out the EVF and focus peaking for myself.

I'm not a member of  "the greatest generation"! I was born right at the tail end of the baby boom, so that would make me middle-aged. However, I can't blame a millennial for mistaking me for an old geezer, after all, it's all relative. When I was a young man, I thought that my father and his peers were dinosaurs!

I started out in photography as a teenager in the late 70s, with an old German rangefinder that my uncle gave me. It was completely mechanical. Even the light meter didn't need a battery, it had a photocell which generated it's own current. The camera had a leaf shutter which was housed inside the lens. I can still remember the sounds of the gears and springs, and how it whirred during a long exposure.  In an era when most kids were lucky to have a plastic camera with a 110 film cartridge (shudders), I was happily shooting with what I thought was the coolest camera going.  Unfortunately, I tripped one day, and fell face first on the concrete with the camera around my neck. I didn't break any bones, but the camera was smashed to bits.

I bought my first Canon SLR around 1990 (an AT-1), at a second hand shop. It was selling for cheap, but I needed a camera, and it was all I could afford at the time. I later found out it was so cheap, because it was already obsolete. Canon had moved on to auto focus bodies with the EF lens mount. I was used to setting everything manually, having learned on the old rangefinder, so this didn't bother me at all. Over the next few years, I learned to develop and print B&W film, and I added more used bodies and FD lenses to the collection. In those days, I could pick up FD lenses at pawnshops, thrift stores, and yard sales for next to nothing, since they didn't work with Canon's new cameras. The only reason I bought the original M camera, is because I found out that I could adapt those FD lenses to it, and give them new life - something that I couldn't do with my digital Rebels.