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Canon M100 poor low light performance, worse than a phone ?

Started Jul 14, 2018 | Discussions thread
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555ea New Member • Posts: 5
Canon M100 poor low light performance, worse than a phone ?
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Hi!

I am having Canon M100 for 2-3 months, I am very happy with it's portability, video quality and overall performance. But I am very disappointed with it's low light perfromance when I take it at night parties to shoot people. It would constantly hunt for focus for about 5-10 seconds shining red light in the person's face blinding him.

I was interested to take a test and I was correct. It took my Canon about 10 seconds trying to focus on a label inside of a dark bathroom with an open door. While my Samsung S7 was able to initially find focus for about 3 seconds and was able to shoot subsequent photos much much faster.

Canon M100

Samsung S7

We can see, there's less detail in Samsung's photo, but it is lighter and lightening up Canon's photo bring a lot of Noize, either RAW or JPEG.
Is there anything I could do, to improve performance ? I was thinking of buying EF-M 22mm, but I am very afraid to invest money, if it won't even help focusing speed, compared to kit 15-45mm lens.

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