Andy01
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Re: Who is happy with your new M3?
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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.
I bought my M3 +18-55mm on a great deal (about 55% discount) in June 2016 before a safari trip to South Africa (as a backup camera for my then 70D. My daughter also bought one so that she had a "decent" camera (to replace her cheap compact).
I left the 100-400L on my 70D and used the M3 +18-55mm for closer subjects - it worked well. I loaned my daughter my 24-105L to put on her M3 (more zoom than 55mm) and it also worked well, but the 100-400L on M3 - not so much.
I got a great deal on a EF 100-400L ii with 10% discount and a 30% Canon cashback in 2017 IF I bought a Canon camera. So I bought the lens with a M5 + 18-150mm (still have it).
I found that the 100-400L ii worked much better (not flawlessly, but better) on the M3 and the original 100-400L worked well on the M5, so it was a M3 + 100-400L thing.
I sold the M3 + 18-55mm (my daughter still has hers) and the original 100-400L and still have the others.
The M3 was fairly well known for it's poor compatibility with certain EF lenses - the original 100-400L being one of them.
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.
Overall the M3 could produce some great images - if you could live with the slow AF, slow performance, lack of EVF etc.
Colin