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Nice compact full frame, good for travel

Started Apr 12, 2017 | User reviews
User6770416267
User6770416267 Junior Member • Posts: 46
Nice compact full frame, good for travel
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I am using this camera since few weeks. Now I took it to Canary Islands, where I am intensively shooting landscapes.

I am quite happy , except one thing the video recording button is so placed that I switch it on occidentally, very frequently. It harms.

Other features are OK. You can nicely crop 24 millions sized image, it works.

This camera, as Canons is not for sport shooting. To long delay!

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Canon EOS M5
24 megapixels • 3.2 screen • APS-C sensor
Announced: Sep 15, 2016
User6770416267's score
4.0
Average community score
3.9
bad for good for
Kids / pets
okay
Action / sports
acceptable
Landscapes / scenery
great
Portraits
great
Low light (without flash)
great
Flash photography (social)
okay
Studio / still life
good
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beagle1 Forum Pro • Posts: 11,740
Re: Nice compact full frame, good for travel

User6770416267 wrote:

I am using this camera since few weeks. Now I took it to Canary Islands, where I am intensively shooting landscapes.

I am quite happy , except one thing the video recording button is so placed that I switch it on occidentally, very frequently. It harms.

Other features are OK. You can nicely crop 24 millions sized image, it works.

This camera, as Canons is not for sport shooting. To long delay!

yes, Canon definitely needs to relocate that video button.  it's too easy to accidentally press it

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Peter Kwok
Peter Kwok Senior Member • Posts: 2,635
Full frame?
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Do you mean a lot more compact than full frame?

BTW, lots of people posted here that the record button can be re-programmed to something else, or completely disabled.

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jpr2 Forum Pro • Posts: 15,554
Re: Full frame?

Peter Kwok wrote:

Do you mean a lot more compact than full frame?

redefinition: APS-C = "compact FF"??

also, "kids/pets" in action are about as tough to do well as "sports", sometimes even much tougher due to cramped spaces indoors PLUS low light - so, how it might be OK[ish] in the I-st category, yet failing in the II-nd?

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Alan Sh Senior Member • Posts: 2,758
Re: Full frame?
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You can redefine what the video button does or disable it. It's all in the manual

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liin
liin Junior Member • Posts: 30
Re: Nice compact full frame, good for travel

M5 is not full frame. It's APS-C.

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HeyItsJoel
HeyItsJoel Senior Member • Posts: 1,206
Re: Nice compact full frame, good for travel

liin wrote:

M5 is not full frame. It's APS-C.

Duh.

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