The video guy:
My only hope is sharp, like really good 1080p. 80D has it but still, this is a smaller body. So...
If it has that, I'd sell my 60D (I can get around 400+ USD for it where I live) and import an M5 so 600$ total. Lower than a rebel price
This one would lose the reassuring size and usability of an SLR and the battery life but give me (in order of personal importance)
-As odd as it sounds - Electronic IS for all lenses. I shoot with LOTs of extremely sharp M42 lenses but I need a big expensive rig, or else my third film will be as shakey as my first two. Got lots of critisizm for it from the average joe viewer. So even non-perfect IS would satisfy my low grade Joes. Biggest feature for me. MIR-37mm 2.8 IS and Jupiter 135mm f2.8 IS YES PLEASE.
-Dual pixel AF for my 18-135mm 60D kit lens and 50mm 1.8 that I own. Again huge feature. I can forget focusing and rely on framing the scene. YES PLEAAASE. (Can't find this one along side great colours in any other camera so excited about the M5). This features also means something I didn't see mentioned, it allows you to give the camera to the photo guy on set to get behind the scenes. With manual only. I never ended up with one usabe clip)
-Throw out the LCD loup and shoot through the EVF. Or also use the loup as an angled tiltable EVF. Very cool having options.
-Focus peaking (+ evf) make focusing m42 a breath (I had that with ML peaking and Loup but this comes in, in a few mm window (evf)
-1080p 60p Actual good looking slowmotion for clients/viewers (not bad standard definition 60p with moire seas upscaled to 720p!)
-HOPEFULLY good-looking 1080p on large screens, otherwise all the rest is absolutely useless useless.
(Don't care about headphone jack, I record to the 100$ Zoom H1 which has 100x better preamps/sound quality than the 1DC and every photography camera on the market. So would never record in the M5 lousy 3.5mm input to care about monitoting the lousy audio!)
(Don't care about UHD as long as it has sharp 1080p. Itls still the standard for video and cinema and broadcast and will be for the next few years. And I never crop)
There are these cameras out there that I can jump ship to like the Panasonic's stabilized sensor cameras, but it's small non cinema standard sensor size, and bad at lowlight. Sony stabilized sensor cameras, but these are expensive! Fuji just cam out with an XT2 which is lovely, but again, no DPAF, hard colour matching with my Canons, and lenses. I am looking for an affordable uograde - Fuji has some awesome colour though on its own. NX1, the closest to what I need but thr company was shut off (what the hell?!). But also lacks good AF, which I would have given it up for thr nx1 proper camera body and big battery) It's all compromises. Yughhh.
Why not the Samsung NX1 perfect body, Samsung's GH4 batteries, Sony IBIS. Sony lens mount. Sony A7SII sensor. Canon Colour science and picture profiles. Canon DPAF. Canon C-Log. Canon XC10 XLRs add-on and 3.5mm jack audio quality. Canon XC10 codecs.
Wouldn't we all happy with that NX1 video beast for the next 5-8 years with that hybrid harmonic team up that gives us high end cinema/documentary/wedding/events/Lowlight/stock/commercial/everything video camera?
Yes and they'd have nothing to sell us for 5-8 years so...
