Is EF-M mount worth investing for a new user

KEG wrote:

nnowak wrote:

Maxmolly7 wrote:

I am sorry about your negative experience with M3. Mine Was better than M in all aspects.

Side note... I was one of the people that imported the M3 from Japan on initial launch, which was several months before it was officially released in the USA.

I have a late 2015 one which was bought locally, it is not impossible to think that there are actually differences between early production and late production.

Seriously?  Can you add "format" to my menu?  Does you bracketed burst rate run faster than 1fps?  Did Canon issue an amended list of incompatible lenses that shows the M3 supporting the EF 50mm f/1.4?

Given Canon's reluctance to ever issue firmware updates, the odds that you 6 month older M3 had better firmware are basically zero.  Also, just because you purchased your M3 a few months later does not mean it was actually built a few months later.

Yes, manufacturers often make mid-run production changes, but anything significant enough to fix the problems I was having would require a full firmware update.  These were not hardware problems, but sloppy coding problems.

I think a lot depended on how you used the camera and which lenses you were using.

The adapted EF 50mm f/1.4 was my most used portrait lens on crop (Sigma 56mm did not exist, nor did the EF 50mm STM) and it was completely unusable on the M3. It ended up on an official list from Canon as being incompatible, but the lens works fine on every other M body. My EF 100-400mm L was another lens that worked much better on the M than M3.

AF speed depended a lot on which lens you were using and how out of focus everything was at the start of the AF sequence. If the image was not too far out of focus at the start of the sequence, the M3 would be faster. If the image at the start of the sequence was a featureless blur, the M3 would get lost and give up. The original M was slow, but it was predictable and would almost always get there. I saw more red failed focus warnings on the M3 than any other camera I have ever owned. If you were only using the 18-55mm kit lens, you may not have seen many of these issues. I was often using lenses with brighter apertures and/or shallower depth of field, though I could repeatedly induce an AF dailure on the M3 with the relatively dark EF-M 55-200mm.

Then there were the firmware bugs/ommisions. Shooting a bracketed exposure in burst mode resulted in an unexplainable slowdown to one frame per second. The "My Menu" shortcut lacked the ability to add "format" to the list. On my M, format was one of the only things I put on the list and used it frequently.

I "downgraded" to the M2 and sold the two week old M3. The M2 was faster than the original M in all regards with none of the shortcomings of the M3.

However, I agree that M6 I is a better deal.

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KEG