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Canon m5

Started Jun 21, 2017 | User reviews thread
mdvaden New Member • Posts: 15
Re: Canon m5

ByronP wrote:

Canon m5 is a great little camera, but it is held back by the following:

1. No cross type af sensors

2. No selective af patterns like the 7d2

3. Poor af in low light

4. No effective spot af

5. For flash photography, it does not use canon's pre-flash from their flashes and ettl is thus slow.

6. Lack of L type lens for the M series. Maybe competitors will get into the game

7. Tracking bif and sports is poor

8. Most importantly, canon has not decided where to put their low end resources (rebel or mirrorless.) One will win and the other will disappear. Make up your mind Canon. Right now both are suffering strategic investment and time to market for improvements which means competitors (mostly Sony) could take future market share away===take future profit away.

A few points are relative, but I think your post in a nutshell misses the mark some pertaining to Canon.

Let me focus on lens selection for example. I don't think Canon dropped the ball on that, and in my case I don't think I'd want any "L" lenses in M mount. I think Canon realized that many M5 owners would appreciate the wealth of "L" lenses that can be adapted to it. And there's a good assortment of great non-L lenses too like the 40mm pancake, 50mm nifty fifty and other primes that are reasonably compact. Where the M5 is ahead of the game is that virtually every piece of Canon glass works exceptional natively, unlike Sony's cameras that are hit and miss across the board whether Canon or other 3rd party work reliably or work reliably at all apertures.

RE tracking, I've seen examples of tracking shown in video that contradict what you said about sports, at least in the action category.

It would be nice if the M5 had more, but I think it has more than plenty until the next models.

Cheers,

M. D. Vaden / www.mdvaden.com/redwoods.shtml

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