Canon m5

Alan Sh wrote:

Nice response Marco. I agree - and I do own an M5.

Alan

Uh Oh, marco and alan chiming in...lol

I think any of us that have lived on dpr for the last 15 or so years and hoped on the M bandwagon early on either because of the desire for a small ILC, or because of the early fire sales as most of us are guilty of, all know canons pace and usual market strategy.  They live by camera profits more so then their other electronic categories.  that being so the vest carefully and are fortunate enough to have such a loyal customer base as a strong marketing tool, that newbies after seeing so much canon in their sights often come on board via the rebel packaging...

Canon is smart enough to manage their profitability along with their R&D budgets (look at the likely cost savings of developing ht em6 and M5 practically together) while also slowly uncovering who they need to focus on with new technology... here the M5/6 is another good example as they try and figure out if their enthusiast minded mirrorless should continue down the path it had or is an EVF essential as they go further into higher end development.

The M5 was just enough maybe a little better then that at maintaining our interest and belief that canon was staying committed to the mirrorless market in a way other then to just have some offerings in there... While they may not have needed to release as many bodies as they have, in between the M and the M5, we are finally able to shoot with a small camera that does a lot of what we want it to and see that there is a future for canons mirrorless worthy of investing our money in as it develops.

Personally i am not yet at the point sell off my DSLR bodies and lenses, certainly not the lenses until their adequate M replacement emerges, but it very rare and becoming rarer that the big boys ever see the light of day, partially due to the M and partially due to life events changing... no more kids at home,........

I think the amount of scrutiny that we here at DPR put on what and how canon does things is at times ridiculous and for many biased negatively if canons releases don't align with our "what do you wish for in canons next..." threads LOL.

In roughly three years canon has given us a small tight M camera that does a hell of a lot, in hindsight, that is after then the time it took for us to get through the launch of dslrs, D30, D60, 10D....... The 10D was the first useable enthusiast dslr...and we had to wait a long time for that..and at the time the cost to get into the game was far higher then where we are with the M cameras...

Hopefully the M5/6 is the sign that canon needed to feel confident that we won't just wait for firesafes to invest and support them in the mirrorless world, and they get on with supporting the bodies with equally great native lenses....

mp