Canon EOS M100 - The little engine that could...

elandel wrote:

Don Karner wrote:

I didn't know that one could adapt Nikon glass to the M. Good luck! Let us know how it turns out.

I'm also curious about that.

Of course you can.

There are also Nikon F and Nikon G adapters direct to M mount.

You only need the G adapter if your lens doesn't have an aperture ring. You're stuck with using the lens at full aperture if it's a Series E lens and you won't be able to focus with an AF-P lens.

The G adapters have a ring which controls the iris lever. You have to guess the aperture by referring to the light meter for G series lenses. F, AI, AI-s, AF, AF-D, AF-S and AF-I have irises which are spring-loaded to close down to the set aperture but you can use the ring to open them up to full aperture. That's more useful for DSLRs and SLRs, it lets you see what you're framing.

It arrived...

Been playing since Wednesday night setting it up. No actual 'serious' test shooting yet (hoping this weekend).

First impressions...

Not as small as I hoped with the lens on, but still pocketable and light way more than my smallest dslr (D7200).

Can be set up easily after a go through of the help guide on the canon support page. The manual is almost a joke, while the guide has meaty info.

Focus seems fast, exposure compensation easily changeable (important for me) and autoISO performance up to 6400 acceptable. On overall IQ until I see pics in LR I will reserve judgement.

Generally, shooting experience seems a lot more carefree than the involvement a VF brings. Remains to see if this will suit me

The M100 is a steal at it's current price and does indeed render great images. Sure it's not a pro body but tbh pro bodies are workhorses and mostly not fun to use.

I got 2x m50 and m100 and it's just great.

It would be perfect if Canon still released a 52 1.4 (wouldn't that be a nice set ? 22mm 32mm and 52mm 🤩)

Maybe in 2 years.

ch96066 wrote:

It arrived...

Been playing since Wednesday night setting it up. No actual 'serious' test shooting yet (hoping this weekend).

First impressions...

Not as small as I hoped with the lens on, but still pocketable and light way more than my smallest dslr (D7200).

Can be set up easily after a go through of the help guide on the canon support page. The manual is almost a joke, while the guide has meaty info.

Focus seems fast, exposure compensation easily changeable (important for me) and autoISO performance up to 6400 acceptable. On overall IQ until I see pics in LR I will reserve judgement.

Generally, shooting experience seems a lot more carefree than the involvement a VF brings. Remains to see if this will suit me

OK -   small can be beautiful  (with the right lens)

www.flickr.com/photos/mmirrorless

Surely can :).

Played a little more today shooting target and scenes at home (rainy day) vs the D7200 with the 18-200 Tamron VC (my DSLR travel kit).

Overall happy with the results. Shooting especially close up is much easier (and closer) with the m100. Overall rendering of the m100 is I think a little flatter than the Nikon. At 45mm wide open the m is softer as well. Of course the lens weighs in on the mix, so it is not a clear cut body comparison.

However, ISO performance on the m100 seems much better/cleaner. 6400 on the m is better than the 3200 of the Nikon.

Stabilization on the m100 is unreal vs the nikon set up. Acceptable down to 1/4s at 45mm!

I will post a couple of examples at some point. I saved raw as tif in photomechanic and I imported in LR with no other processing done.

By the way helicon remote is not compatible with the m100. Works with the D7200.

Outdoor shooting comparison today.

18-35 range I prefer the m100 outcome. Better detail resolution and depth rendering I think.

From 35 and above m100 kit lens gets soft vs the D7200 with 18-200 Tamron.

Also there is about 1/3 stop difference between the 2 metering systems at same focal length, aperture and scene set up.

This time raw files were converted to DNG and were imported to LR for comparison.

Overall happy with m100 IQ. Now I need to find a way to get more reach out of it

Looks like a fun and handy little camera with very good IQ, but I have two questions.

1. Can it do auto exposure bracketing?

2. Is it possible to see histogram in live view while shooting?

1) not automatically

2) yes both luminance and RGB. It is a great help for ETTR

Certainly is fun to use especially thank to the touch screen.

It doesn't have Automatic Exposure Bracketing, but Exposure Compensation is conveniently designed. The mentioned dial surrounds the shutter button. As you move the dial, you can see the (optional, not depicted) histogram change.

Canon M100 manual

An alternative (I use) to what tomwilde correctly pointed out, is to use the touch screen and directly switch EC at will.