Canon EOS M6 Coming This Month.

[RobPan]

...straight down 'viewfinder' shooting a ways back:

Reminds me of my first camera:

Hi Neuro,

This reminds me of my first camera, which I got in 1947. A twin lens reflex but without parallax compensation, perhaps even without distance setting (?). No flash. That is all I remember. I still have a few pictures taken with that camera, my little brothers playing in a grass field in Java, the Jain temple in Calcutta (both in 1954, shortly before I lost the camera somehow). It was American built. Any idea which brand it could have been?
Kind regards,
Freddy.

 

[neuroanatomist]

This reminds me of my first camera, which I got in 1947. A twin lens reflex but without parallax compensation, perhaps even without distance setting (?). No flash. That is all I remember. I still have a few pictures taken with that camera, my little brothers playing in a grass field in Java, the Jain temple in Calcutta (both in 1954, shortly before I lost the camera somehow). It was American built. Any idea which brand it could have been?

Sorry, no idea.

Lovely memories, though!

 

[Fleetie]

...straight down 'viewfinder' shooting a ways back:

Hi Neuro,

This reminds me of my first camera, which I got in 1947. A twin lens reflex but without parallax compensation, perhaps even without distance setting (?). No flash. That is all I remember. I still have a few pictures taken with that camera, my little brothers playing in a grass field in Java, the Jain temple in Calcutta (both in 1954, shortly before I lost the camera somehow). It was American built. Any idea which brand it could have been?
Kind regards,
Freddy.

Posts like this one make me happy!
Thank-you!

 

[ashmadux]

ANY M with a regular hot shoe and full swivel screen is a must buy for me. Canons insistence on only flip screen is keeping the bigger than i want 80d on my list.

I still need to get rid of this 6d, and my m1 got a hard hit an is now acting funny.

 

[privatebydesign]

This reminds me of my first camera, which I got in 1947. A twin lens reflex but without parallax compensation, perhaps even without distance setting (?). No flash. That is all I remember. I still have a few pictures taken with that camera, my little brothers playing in a grass field in Java, the Jain temple in Calcutta (both in 1954, shortly before I lost the camera somehow). It was American built. Any idea which brand it could have been?

Sorry, no idea.

Lovely memories, though!

Maybe a process of elimination might help.

Do any of these ring a bell Argus, Graflex, Craftex or Royce? They are all US 40's/50's TLR manufacturers.

Argus for sure made a very basic model with no parallax or distance markers. I think it was made of a Bakelite type composite with a silver front.

P.S. Just found this picture of the Argus 40.

 

[gmrza]

presume 4 is an unlucky number in japan, so..., naturally skip. :

Correct, tetraphobia is quite common in a number of East Asian cultures - especially China and Japan.
The number "4" sounds a lot like the word for "death" in Chinese. The same applies in Japanese.

 

[gmrza]

It will be nothing dramatic. M3 with m5 sensor is probably all and that will be enough for most.

The question I have about the EOS M is when Canon will address the vignetting issues which appear to be worse on the M series, because it appears that Canon's sensors are not good at handling light coming in from such an oblique angle.

 

[ahsanford]

It will be nothing dramatic. M3 with m5 sensor is probably all and that will be enough for most.

The question I have about the EOS M is when Canon will address the vignetting issues which appear to be worse on the M series, because it appears that Canon's sensors are not good at handling light coming in from such an oblique angle.

Do folks buying APS-C mirrorless care that much about vignetting? And for those that do care, can they not solve the problem with EF glass on an adaptor?


- A

 

[Zv]

It will be nothing dramatic. M3 with m5 sensor is probably all and that will be enough for most.

The question I have about the EOS M is when Canon will address the vignetting issues which appear to be worse on the M series, because it appears that Canon's sensors are not good at handling light coming in from such an oblique angle.

Do folks buying APS-C mirrorless care that much about vignetting? And for those that do care, can they not solve the problem with EF glass on an adaptor?


- A

It's never bothered me. I usually correct it in post and manually reapply it.

 

[josephandrews222]

...straight down 'viewfinder' shooting a ways back:

Reminds me of my first camera:

My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 44 (shutter speed static at 1/50 s; fixed focus 43mm; f11)

http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kodak_Instamatic_44

It used flash cubes!

 

[rrcphoto]

It will be nothing dramatic. M3 with m5 sensor is probably all and that will be enough for most.

The question I have about the EOS M is when Canon will address the vignetting issues which appear to be worse on the M series, because it appears that Canon's sensors are not good at handling light coming in from such an oblique angle.

vignetting isn't that bad, the color cast on the M3 was, not sure if it was improved on the M5, but on one seems to mention a color cast on the M5.

 

[rrcphoto]

the new EVF's .. DAMN they look nice. reminds me of the old retro hotshoe viewfinders for rangefinders.

we're starting to get images now, so we're pretty close to announcement you'd have to think.

 

[-pekr-]

Is it possible following site has photos of a real M6? Date is recent, but not sure how old is that. Well, as for me, I don't like leather nor old rangefinder look. Well, maybe it just needs to grow on me, but so far I like design of M10 or G7X, combined with Red rings here or there more ...

http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/first-images-new-canon-eos-m6/

 

[ahsanford]

Is it possible following site has photos of a real M6? Date is recent, but not sure how old is that. Well, as for me, I don't like leather nor old rangefinder look. Well, maybe it just needs to grow on me, but so far I like design of M10 or G7X, combined with Red rings here or there more ...

http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/first-images-new-canon-eos-m6/

Yep. Nokishi.ta leaked everything last night, and then Digicame did the same. A new thread is going over the details now. We only have pictures so far, but it looks a lot the M3 size-wise. (See the CR homepage)

- A