EOS M officially announced

From theAustralianhands-on experience

That's encouraging.

Some comments I read from others:
1) " Why would you even want to mount your EF lenses to this camera? The whole idea of a small mirrorless camera is portability. Add EF lenses and throw your portability out. If I want to use my EF lenses, I'll just grab my 5D2 with them."

2) "This isn't a camera aimed at enthusiasts, which I suspect is the reason for all the hate/whining/****/grip​ing.

Canon, like Nikon, is positioning this as a step-up offering for Powershot users wanting better image quality / flexibility but who find DSLRs off-putting. Not as a replacement for DSLRs. This is a perfectly reasonable and legitimate business strategy for Canon and Nikon, the two worldwide leaders in the DSLR market.

Personally, I think focusing on the camera body is irrelevant. The more interesting discussion is probably around the EOS-M system itself. Will it grow someday to include enthusiast and even professional models? Perhaps, if the DSLR business begins shrinking and competition from others heats up.

But we shouldn't expect Canon and Nikon to prematurely hasten the death of the DSLR market. If you want market disruption, you'll have to find it from the niche players like Olympus."

3) " The only use I see with this is as a back up on a hike, if I dont want to carry a second full size bodys weight."

Or if your pack can't accomidate another body!

AF seems super super slow...the lack of a view-finder is a bit of a killer for me...i do wonder if it has built in vibrating sensor cleaning...if not i wonder if it will get a lot more dust that DSLR's without the cover of the mirror...

AJSJones wrote in post #14759979
From theAustralianhands-on experience

that's promising.

Bianchi wrote in post #14760149
Personally, I think focusing on the camera body is irrelevant.
3) " The only use I see with this is as a back up on a hike, if I dont want to carry a second full size bodys weight."

know how I know you don't have/shoot kids?

this is what dpreview says about the auto-focus:

http://www.dpreview.co​m/previews/canon-eos-m

Looks interesting, but I am first getting a 5D3 as soon as I am back from the holidays

jacobsen1 wrote in post #14760305
that's promising.


know how I know you don't have/shoot kids?

Haaa ? I reposted what I read others had said. Dont get your point about the kids...Unless you are referring to the person who posted it.

If I had a lazy grand, I'd grab one, it would be a useful sensor to put on the end of one of my lenses without adding any weight to my camera bag. Lets face it one of these on the end of a 70-200 would barely be noticed in the bag. It may even avoid the necessity of a lens change in adverse environmental conditions.

jacobsen1 wrote in post #14759687
I read that too. It's a smaller mount than a mount specifically designed for FF, so it's a fact. But here's the thing. If they were to go to a FF version of this, why not just use the EF mount. The lenses exist and it'd make those users happy. Yes the mount would be a tad longer, but they could also make more pancake lenses to give people the option of having smaller lenses, but they'd have a TON of available lenses on launch. Wins in both cases as long as they also make more pancakes for EF IMHO.

I get this, and have nothing against that. Except for the fact that I really hoped one day this new system would provide us with a solution/alternative to the large bodies and lenses that we already have. I did not have the fortune of existing during the hight of the compact film slr (or rangefinder) days, but I have always thought we should get back to or emulate that sort of experience. You are right though, that would make sense for them to do.

Yohan Pamudji wrote in post #14758918
...You can't make the opening big enough for FF and still have the pins there. That's why it won't support FF.

Sigh. I'm not saying DSLRS are done (IMO they aren't), but it would have been nice for Canon to at least left open the possibility, you know?

Potential NEX 5 and S90 replacement. You just know Canon are going to get lenses out for this thing faster than Sony have bothered to with the NEX.

If only I could use the lovely Sigma 30 2.8 on it

Michael Cheddar wrote in post #14760552
Sigh. I'm not saying DSLRS are done (IMO they aren't), but it would have been nice for Canon to at least left open the possibility, you know?

I know exactly how you feel. With all the major players having shown their hands the door is now pretty much closed for a FF mirrorless anytime soon (no, Leica M9 doesn't count). I know it would be a niche market, I know the lenses wouldn't be tiny (although with some ingenuity and willingness to employ in-body lens correction we could get closer to reasonable sizes), but it would have been nice to leave the door open for it to happen one day. EF-M mount emphatically says "no soup for you" to us FF mirrorless dreamers.

As a niche market though, big corps like Canon won't try to appeal to niche markets so why would they attempt a FF mirrorless unless it becomes a popularized and highly demanded consumer item?