Amazing body, shame about the lens selection

whakapu wrote:

The lens selection is the best there is bar none. It's the main benefit of the EOS-M sytem. With most of the lenses you can even remove that inexpensive inch of spacer barrel and use them on DSLRs.

Honestly if I was going to buy a mirrorless camera just to adapt EF lenses on, I would get an R, it's more proportional to the size of the lenses, with the added bonus of a full frame sensor. If you're going to use big lenses anyway, the body size isn't going to be a major factor until you move into 1D territory, and a larger body might actually be desirable because it makes actually shooting with them comfortable. I deliberately bought a small camera, and while I have EF lenses and do enjoy mounting them on it, they make it no longer small. I would say the main benefit of the M6 is the small size paired with a good sensor (relative to that size) and what I feel is by far the best control setup/ergonomics on a non full frame mirrorless camera.

I think Canon themselves would rather people just adapt EF lenses, and may be holding out on purpose because of the R&D costs of fully developing a whole new system combined with getting folks to spend now on EF lenses and then maybe double dip if an EF-M equivalent trickles out. I'm pretty sure a lot of those EF lenses have a nice profit margin relative to (good) EF-M lenses, with the added bonus of maybe getting you to buy a DSLR now that you have all those lenses kicking around, once you realize a big lens on a tiny body is death on your wrist. I guarantee we'll never see an equivalent to, say, the awesome, tiny, and cheap Olympus 45mm 1.8 (90mm equiv on 4/3) because, hey, just throw on the 50 1.8 using our $200 (lmao) adapter! I would love for Canon to prove me wrong though.