An Announcement Coming in November? [CR1]

[Don Haines]

Oh little EOS M. What are you going to do now that Sony has launched their EF-capable A7 and A7R?

Just go FF or go home.

I was thinking about this the other day
all they would have to do is take a 6D bits as is whack it into an EOS-M body with EF Mount and it would sell tons
have a hotshoe mountable EVF as an option perhaps
not sure if the EOS-M body is deep enough though to mount the sensor far enough back and retain the needed depth for the EF lens image circle projection.
of course this would bury the 6D sales but then they would bring out the 6Dmk2 with better AF wouldn't they

a 6D sensor would not solve the big problem with the EOS-M.... slow focus speed.. Let's see what happens if they put a 70D sensor into it....

 

[dgatwood]

Oh little EOS M. What are you going to do now that Sony has launched their EF-capable A7 and A7R?

Just go FF or go home.

I was thinking about this the other day
all they would have to do is take a 6D bits as is whack it into an EOS-M body with EF Mount and it would sell tons
have a hotshoe mountable EVF as an option perhaps
not sure if the EOS-M body is deep enough though to mount the sensor far enough back and retain the needed depth for the EF lens image circle projection.
of course this would bury the 6D sales but then they would bring out the 6Dmk2 with better AF wouldn't they

a 6D sensor would not solve the big problem with the EOS-M.... slow focus speed.. Let's see what happens if they put a 70D sensor into it....

And if you limit it to EF lenses and made the body 26 mm deeper, you'd still have an off-balance rig with huge lenses on a tiny little camera body.

Now if you made it compatible with EF-M, EF-S, and EF lenses (throwing away a third of the pixels when attached to EF-S and EF-M lenses), then you'd have something that was at least usable, but you'd still have horrible autofocus with EF lenses because they tend to block the IR focus assist beam. To make a full-frame mirrorless camera, you need to start with a 6D-sized body (or bigger) and move the sensor forward or otherwise make it thinner, not start with a current EF-M body and try to stuff in a larger sensor.

Of course, you'd still have the inherent problem of distortion caused by adapter slump....