nice read on LL

[Lightmaster]

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/a_redux_critique_of_contemporary_camera_design.shtml

quite a bit about the EOS-M too.

Another interesting analysis that can be gleaned from the EOS M is the problematic decision to put a 4+ year old sensor in a brand new camera. Below is a side by side screenshot from DxO Mark comparing the EOS M/7D sensor to the Fuji X100 sensor. Personally, I think their findings are spot on. For the attributes they are testing, the X100 has a better sensor. However, I routinely get comparable to better results from the EOS M, than I got from the X100, despite the advantages of the X100’s imaging chip. I don’t know all the reasons for it, but it isn’t that difficult to speculate about some of them: First, there’s a 50% advantage for the EOS M in pixel count--18MP, as opposed to 12, and it even has a slight advantage in pixel count to the X100s, 18 to 16. The EOS M has a much more robust A/D processor, which among other things likely accounts for why the high ISO performance is a bit better on the EOS M. (Class leading high ISO performance has always been a Canon trademark.) But, I think the biggest difference is that you can remove the quite good, but hardly world class, EOS M lens, and use other lenses with the camera, which are world class. You can see the difference in a heartbeat, as you import the RAW files into Lightroom before you even touch them in post. It’s easy to spot the files shot with a Zeiss T* ZM lens, as opposed to the Canon lens.

 

[BL]

Thanks for sharing Lightmaster!

Lord knows I really, really tried to read this, given how enamored I am with the humble M.

But this wall of text was nearly impossible to read. Line breaks anyone?

I did scroll down far enough to see DxO sensor comparisons... *facepalm*

 

[sagittariansrock]

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/a_redux_critique_of_contemporary_camera_design.shtml

quite a bit about the EOS-M too.

Another interesting analysis that can be gleaned from the EOS M is the problematic decision to put a 4+ year old sensor in a brand new camera. Below is a side by side screenshot from DxO Mark comparing the EOS M/7D sensor to the Fuji X100 sensor. Personally, I think their findings are spot on. For the attributes they are testing, the X100 has a better sensor. However, I routinely get comparable to better results from the EOS M, than I got from the X100, despite the advantages of the X100’s imaging chip. I don’t know all the reasons for it, but it isn’t that difficult to speculate about some of them: First, there’s a 50% advantage for the EOS M in pixel count--18MP, as opposed to 12, and it even has a slight advantage in pixel count to the X100s, 18 to 16. The EOS M has a much more robust A/D processor, which among other things likely accounts for why the high ISO performance is a bit better on the EOS M. (Class leading high ISO performance has always been a Canon trademark.) But, I think the biggest difference is that you can remove the quite good, but hardly world class, EOS M lens, and use other lenses with the camera, which are world class. You can see the difference in a heartbeat, as you import the RAW files into Lightroom before you even touch them in post. It’s easy to spot the files shot with a Zeiss T* ZM lens, as opposed to the Canon lens.

He calls this a "problematic" decision and then goes on to say how, regardless, the images are better. At least he could have bitched about it a bit before moving on to the kudos

This is probably a good article to read for someone contemplating the mirrorless route. However, I have a comment or two to make about the writing style. Having spent most of my working life reading and writing scientific journal articles and reviews I find articles like this, that ramble on without defining a direction, distracting. The succinct summary of his previous article in the beginning was promising, but then it lost organization. It is one thing to journal your thoughts as they come. But I feel it is important to organize the content when writing an essay, if only for the sake of the reader.

Thanks for sharing though, Lightmaster!