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What are your plans about the M mount situation. Poll

Started 4 months ago | Polls thread
istscott
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Re: What are your plans about the M mount situation. Poll
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brent1395 wrote:

tvcat wrote:

I don't understand why people so scare of camera mount discontinued.

Film camera was discontinued since very long time ago and it still take great photo.

EOS M mount has more lens than you ever need.

As far as native glass goes, there's some holes in the EF-M lineup.

For me, the reasons I'm upset about EF-M dying-- I also use my cameras for video. Video specs on cameras are still advancing pretty quickly. If I want some of the video features that are pretty much standard now, such as IBIS, real (non-sub-sampled) 4k, and unlimited recording times, I need to start over from scratch and switch to a different mount, which means re-buying everything and spending a bunch of money.

Even from a photography perspective, things are advancing, and these bodies we have now won't last forever. It's going to be a slow, painful death.

Same here, a mix of video and photo. It is frustrating because EF-M hits a pretty solid sweet spot of cost, size, and function. The advancements that Canon has would be great in EF-M. Now we will likely be artificially limited even though the tech/firmware is already available in various RF cameras.

To get around the 30 minute per video clip limiter I use an Atomos Ninja V (with the paid add-on h.265 hevc encoder to have manageably sized files). It works nicely with the M6ii, though recent Atomos firmware have been causing HDMI audio passthrough noise/consecutive blip sounds. I use a powered mic attached to the Ninja V directly usually so not a huge issue for me with that extra audio track besides a little bit of audio sync offset.

Personally, I think I'd want whichever new sensor has a faster read-out from the R10 or R7. A body design like the M6ii, but with a true photo/video setting split. Add in IBIS, no record limit, h.265 encoding and a few other things but it's totally a pipe dream at this point, lol.

Maybe in years RF will cover most of what EF-M is, but I can't say I like the way they design their cheaper RF glass and there are no 3rd party alternatives. (Similar focusing barely/motors as the 22mm f/2 and 32mm f/2 which I was never too fond of for video). Canon should at least officially let Sigma and Tamron release lenses for RF. If they don't then RF is likely a no go for me.

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