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Who is happy with your new M3?

Started Apr 5, 2015 | Discussions thread
nnowak Veteran Member • Posts: 9,072
Re: Who is happy with your new M3?

Andy01 wrote:

Maxmolly7 wrote:

Yes, EF 100-400mm MK 1.

All good, except the M3 (at least the one I had) doesn't actually actually work well at all with the original EF 100-400L. It would AF - eventually - if you gave it enough time to hunt around - essentially unusable really.

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The M3 was fairly well known for it's poor compatibility with certain EF lenses - the original 100-400L being one of them.

That was just one of the lenses that I found worked better on my original M than the M3.

Don't forgett hat G3x can onlyshoot 1 raw per second.

From memory the M3 has about the same frame rate in reality. The spec says 4.2fps (with a maximum 5 shot RAW burst), but I found that when I was doing a 3 bracket burst it took a good 2 seconds to fire off the 3 shots.

That was one of the unresolved firmware bugs in the M3.  Standard burst would work as advertised, but using bracketing introduced a one second delay between each image.

Overall the M3 could produce some great images - if you could live with the slow AF, slow performance, lack of EVF etc.

Out a camera JPEGs were a jarring departure from the original M and most other Canon cameras that preceded the M3.

Colin

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