Deal of the year - pulled the trigger on M6

lumenite wrote:

Wow, what a wonderful deal! Congratulations!

Indeed, it is!

I like Richard Frienic's grip with a solid feel of the original M, but M5 is good enough to hold. Many controls give me a big pleasure to play with the camera.

I quite like the M body shaping, as I have different expectations from it. So I don't feel like putting an additional grip would help. It would completely change nature of the camera body for me. But thanks for recommendation.

Although many say that the original UI is better than M3/5/6's, I do not get the point.

It(s weird, but I feel it the same way. The M touch UI worked very well for my purpose, and reverting back to tiny buttons and dials is not upgrade for me. Also as it is new to me, I never remember what settings is hidden under particular dial.bso I have to try more of these, to get wanted results and parameter changes. That is quite frustrating compared to tapping on what I need. It really feels worse.

I also have almost no use for tiltable LCD. Maybe because of my laziness. I am sorry that M5 is also slow to respond and this is Canon's latest technology for mirrorless.

Mostly laziness, I agree. But I'm not lazy to lay down for a shot. Or maybe layzy enaugh to lay down, and not fiddle with the screen, in very uncomfortable body position...

As for me, fast enough for the most situations. This is one of the greatest improvement although it is still behind in comparison with Canon DSLR and others' mirrorless.

I do agree on that one. I'm not sure if I value this change enough. Time will tell. I have to try the focus peaking function with MF. That seems to be also very good.

A little bit better, but a little bit different color profile.

Yes. I noticed different colors immediately. I found it pleasantly "clinical", but from shot to shot, I like to add the old school Canon warmer and saturated look to it.

Todays, I am enjoying using EF 28mm 1.8 and 50mm 1.4

Had 1.4 before on M. Quite big, and it didn't focus well wide open. So I used MF. For that kind of usage, I'm looking at Samyang 50mm f/1.2. For AF lens, I'm very happy with 1.8 STM.

more than before because M5 has EVF, which gives me a more stable, comfortable posture.

I see. It does help a lot. It was great fight in my head, over viewfinder. But compactness decided for no VF.

Of course they have been in my collection since even before getting the original M. If starting from scratch, I would not buy both of them for EOS Ms.

I even had 11-22mm IS STM, and while it was very, very good, I found that it´s still not enough "fun", so it went, eventually....

Interesting because many are satisfied with 11-22.

It is darn good lens indeed! I like to recommend it. It's just that I didn't have use for 15-22mm range, it's not fast lens (in terms of aperture), and not THAT funny. Rather work horse. And I explained that one already. I need more fun than that.

Since I chose EOS 5 (not 5D) as my first camera, I have been not able to depart from Canon even though there have been many shortcomings in Canon.

I was (able to jump the ship). Baad bad move. Take me as bad example. It put me "off rails" here and there that some of the Canon performance and features shortcomings are so deep compared to competition, but in real life, I found out that basic aspects of the camera work great, and "hipsters and novelty" features of other brands won't make me happier. Good lesson! Lost over $1000 during these stewpid transitions.