Dylan777 said:
ahsanford said:
LDS said:
rang said:
I bought the M5 with 5 lenses and the adapter to stay loyal
Why stay loyal? Canon is not your wife, your family, or friends . You don't owe anything to it. As long people buy, and sales are good, why should Canon be worried? I would never buy anything I don't like just to "stay loyal".
+1. Love Canon and am often accused of being an apologist for them, but I see mirrorless being a work in progress that I will not make major system investment in (with any manufacturer) for the next 5 years or so.
But I would totally buy a small non-Canon setup for travel and avoid building up a collection of lenses/flashes/accessories for it. I'd consider buying a Fuji X rig with a single staple prime or possibly a fixed lens mirrorless rig (x100, RX1, Leica Q, etc.) as I would use it as a smaller travel setup.
Will I ever bolt EF glass on to a future EOS M or Canon FF mirrorless setup?
Sure, but my 5D3 would mop the floor with it handling/functionality/responsiveness/battery-wise, so why suffer a downgrade just to enjoy mirrorless? Just wait until mirrorless gets good enough to be nearly seamless for the way you shoot -- for each of us, that timeframe might range from
right now (mirrorless enthusiasts) to 10+ years (sports/wildlifers). I'm probably somewhere in the middle, hence my 5 year guess.
- A
For last couple years, I have hand-on many mirrorless systems(except Leica). Fuji seems to hit the sweet spot best. From off to ready to shoot is near DSLR. All the control functions are up front. Fuji primes are just amazing. Skin tone from JPEG SOOC is one of the best.
I was a loyal Canon user for many many years starting from the 20D. I briefly switched to Nikon during the D3 years and didn't like the ergonomics and the reverse lens mount, so I was back to shooting Canon a year or so later.
When I first ventured into mirror-less at some point a few years ago I was looking for substantial weight savings to reduce my corporate event coverage work kit sometimes involving air-flight travel, so MFT was the best compromise at the time and let me shave off more than 12-15lbs off my working kit sometimes for more than 8-12 hours a day. While it's performance envelope is obviously narrower than a pro-level Canon kit, I still kept all of my EF glass and bodies at the time. Soon enough, coincidentally I started to cover sports work less and less, so I wasn't overly concerned with tracking AF and sold off my EF bodies and accessories and just kept the glass and was shooting mirror-less exclusively.
But the real change was my mindset. It wasn't until I ventured into mirror-less that it opened up a different perception on what I wanted out of my gear. There were manufacturers wanting to make a statement through innovation and others who were not overly concerned in protecting their alternative product lines that have made the acquisition process easier, lighter or smaller for me over the years.
I don't purchase based on loyalty, market-share or manufacturer sales performance. If I had stayed loyal to one manufacturer, I might have not been able to enjoy or broaden my service into film and video. A simplest example of this was when I was still shooting on DSLRs years ago, I didn't know it was possible to capture low or high angle shots that easily without having to spray and pray or go prone when all I knew was fixed non articulating screens.
Think about what you really want out of your system and do your due diligence between feature sets and obsolescence and make a decision.
