Canon EOS M Images.

 
UPDATED 0828 Canon EOS M – Part II. Hands-on Review

Yes, the answer is a most emphatic YES to every­one who has asked if I plan to pur­chase the brand-new Canon Mir­ror­less sys­tem. I just placed my order here. You have until Octo­ber to change your mind. I seri­ously doubt I’ll change mine.

So, in a nut­shell, we have a tiny cam­era body with a pow­er­ful DIGIC 5 image proces­sor, and a very nice APS-C 18.0 Megapixel CMOS sen­sor, which is the same sen­sor size one finds in the won­der­ful EOS 7D and EOS 60D. The touch screen and UI are vir­tu­ally iden­ti­cal to the brand new Rebel T4i.  Appar­ently you can pur­chase the body only, but I have only seen the kit with the EF-M 22mm ƒ2.0 pan­cake lens. All the expected fea­tures like ISO set­tings from 100 to 12800, with expan­sion to ISO 25600, stan­dard  aspect ratios (3:2 plus 4:3, 1:1 and 16:9), and  1080p at 24/25/30 fps and 720p 50/60 fps are there, BUT now we have con­tin­u­ous autofocus.

The hybrid (stills and video) AF sys­tem uses “phase-difference AF to achieve approx­i­mate focus and drive the lens at high speed, then switches to con­trast AF for final focus­ing.” The movie files are recorded in MPEG-4 for­mat, using AVC.H.264 com­pres­sion and a vari­able bit rate. Pro­gram as well as and man­ual shoot­ing modes are sup­ported in movie mode.

And the cherry on top? The EOS M will take EF lenses thanks to the adapter shown below.  Enjoy the view.

Canon EOS M Lens Mount Adapter

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Canon EOS M with a 70-200mm 2.8 Lens

Canon EOS M 22mm lens

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