We were wrong, all of your Canon mirrorless dreams are likely coming true soon

I just hope Canon learns from Sony and Nikon. We would love to stay a Canon Shooter Studio. We do weddings, so we need quality, a good lens selection and a great battery.
Yeah, that's what Sony is known for...a great lens selection and stellar battery life. :eek:


Right. Because all EF lenses will turn to dust when a thin mount + adaptor is released. Poof. :unsure:

If Canon leads with thin, and I think they will, they need to put out a proper public service announcement sort of video showing how EF lenses will perform as they did before (under DPAF).

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I know people in here are mostly interested in specks so this might not be of very high significance to the CR community, but I really hope canon makes a camera that looks good while also taking high quality images.
I don’t understand why canon cameras has to share the esthetics of early 90s tube style TVs. As a photographer I appreciate esthetics, and I think a camera should make me want to pick it up and use it, just by the way it looks and feels.
It is not like I want canon to sacrifice ergonomics for esthetics, but the look of there DSLRs basically hasn’t changed since the late 80s early 90s. I think the introduction of mirroles is a opportune moment for canon to update their design language a bit.

Canon has designed cameras that were aesthetically pleasing:

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This one was ergonomically displeasing.
 
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I just hope Canon learns from Sony and Nikon. We would love to stay a Canon Shooter Studio. We do weddings, so we need quality, a good lens selection and a great battery.

If I look at the pricing I am not shure Canon should learn everything from Sony / Nikon - I am glad that the M50 was just above 500 EUR/$.
If you turn in ECO mode it is good for 300 shots over one week with some deleting / fiddling in the menu before the battery shows 50% (which maybe is 30%) so maybe comparable with Sony battery stamina.
With the lens selection you are right: Native EF-M primes are only available in homeopathic doses and around a - for me - not so pleasing focal length range (22-28-32) but ... with the EF2EF-M adapter I have access to all the lenses I bought in the last 13 years and they work without any flaws (especially EF-S 60 macro, EF 40, EF 70-200 4.0 L IS, EF 400 5.6, EF-S 10-22).
The Canon ecosystem is great in terms of compatibility and reliability and this comes from a very critical user!
 
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with the EF2EF-M adapter I have access to all the lenses I bought in the last 13 years and they work without any flaws (especially EF-S 60 macro, EF 40, EF 70-200 4.0 L IS, EF 400 5.6, EF-S 10-22).

Thank you for sharing. There seems to be only a limited amount of adaptor performance reviews out there.

Occasionally you see videos like this:


But that's not that much to go on. "It looks good. Cool."

Will someone please investigate and write up the following comparison?
  • M5 / M6 vs. a relatively similarly sensored EF-S camera that has DPAF
  • Pick a few EF or EF-S lenses: mix up STM vs. USM, short vs. long FLs, etc.
  • Compare AF hit rate, consistency and speed between the EF-S camera (in liveview) and the EF-M + adaptor
  • Compare output IQ between the two
Settle the question: Did Canon get the adaptor right with EF-M? Is there any evidence to suggest that our EF glass will not perform on a similar FF adaptor in the future?

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Thank you for sharing. There seems to be only a limited amount of adaptor performance reviews out there.

Occasionally you see videos like this:


But that's not that much to go on. "It looks good. Cool."

Will someone please investigate and write up the following comparison?
  • M5 / M6 vs. a relatively similarly sensored EF-S camera that has DPAF
  • Pick a few EF or EF-S lenses: mix up STM vs. USM, short vs. long FLs, etc.
  • Compare AF hit rate, consistency and speed between the EF-S camera (in liveview) and the EF-M + adaptor
  • Compare output IQ between the two
Settle the question: Did Canon get the adaptor right with EF-M? Is there any evidence to suggest that our EF glass will not perform on a similar FF adaptor in the future?

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The adapter ring with EF-M works just fine. I have M50 for last 4-month together with adapter. I use camera for parties, walk arounds, trips etc.
I use with following lenses canon: 24/1.4, 35/1.4, 50/1.4, 85/1,2&1.8, 135/2 and it just works. I have not experienced any difference in performance against 5Dm3.
It is reliable.
 
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A new mount with a very large diameter plus an adapter for EF would be a good solution for me. The adapter should be included for free though. Later you could buy new lenses for the new large mount which could really make use of it and have a very low vignetting or even an aperture of f/1. With a large diameter you could even use medium format lenses and the 35mm sensor would only use the center of the medium format frame, where the image quality is the best.

However for me a camera still needs a real optical viewfinder, which rules out mirrorless cameras.

Video is something I do not need in a camera at all.
 
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Nikon have had the option to completely redesign their new mirrorless mount for the best series of compromises. And from a clean sheet of paper they have ended up with a mount that is just 1mm different from the Canon EF mount.
So what exactly are people expecting from the 'new mount'? Why would Canon's mount be larger if Nikon have decided on the size they have?
 
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I just hope Canon learns from Sony and Nikon. We would love to stay a Canon Shooter Studio. We do weddings, so we need quality, a good lens selection and a great battery.

I would say 'lets hope canon learns from Sony's mistakes. Don't screw up the ergonomics. Don't screw up the heat dissipation. Don't screw up the weather sealing and Durability. Don't screw up the menus. Don't screw up the button layout(as a separate issue to ergonomics). Give us a camera that is reliable and does a good job all the time as opposed to a great job some of the time. If that can be done without compromising specs that would be great but if you need to drop the throughput or have a slightly lower spec video option that's fine. Just make sure it is reliable.
 
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I would say 'lets hope canon learns from Sony's mistakes. Don't screw up the ergonomics. Don't screw up the heat dissipation. Don't screw up the weather sealing and Durability. Don't screw up the menus. Don't screw up the button layout(as a separate issue to ergonomics). Give us a camera that is reliable and does a good job all the time as opposed to a great job some of the time. If that can be done without compromising specs that would be great but if you need to drop the throughput or have a slightly lower spec video option that's fine. Just make sure it is reliable.
True, in terms of ergonomics, usability and durability Canon has always been hard to beat. I've never come across a camera or menu system as intuitive as Canon's are. And this isn't based on one camera, it's 13+ years DSLR shooting.

Also, unrelated, EF mount please. There's been this neat little patent on a mount with adjustable flange distance. That sounds like something worth investing in when it ships in a camera.
 
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Yeah. They did hit dizzying heights... like 6 years ago. EXMOR went on-chip before everyone else and pooped on other folks' base ISO DR at that time.

You say that, but this is a 100% crop of a 70D file (off the net, way back when it had first been released) pushed umpteen stops (from this) - OK, it's 160 ISO, not exactly base ISO, but it's noise free in the shadows. How much shadow recovery latitude anyone really need?

More than this? I sincerely doubt it. And more to the point - I could pass these off as Sony files with no problem. In fact, I often have.

The secret? Don't convert in LightRoom/ACR..!

That one was DPP. This is Capture One Pro, which arguably makes the point ever more effectively...
 
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Fair enough. Was just merely making a point that it sounds like theres a lot of resistance to change when it comes to DSLR users. Usually people who have become accustomed to something over a long period of time tend to do that.
There's a world of difference between not mindlessly rushing towards change for change's sake, and being "resistant" to change.

In other words - we'll change when it's time. But not before.

For many of us, right now, mirrorless brings precisely nothing to the table.

So why would we change?
 
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If its not superior to the sony a7iii then forget it.

Let's see, DPAF blows Sony away every time, Sony (Nikon) is really struggling in this area and continues to do so, look at what Canon has done with DPAF in the 700 series cinema cameras (They also smoke Sony (Nikon) in DR with these sensors, Color and overall quality of image by Canon always beats Sony and ease of use, critical when getting that fleeting moment is a real downfall of Sony. 1 stop at most in DR at the lowest ISO is no big deal as Canon consistently beats Sony (Nikon) in DR in most products when the going gets tough like higher than base ISOs. So Canon should have no problem seeing as they are already ahead.
 
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Regarding the mount/adaptor argument...

I feel there can be no way Canon will simply change the mount and include a basic EF adapter because they had no problem telling the world they had a "sexy solution" for EF glass on mirrorless.

You dont tell everyone you have a "sexy solution" if all you have is the exact same basic solution that already exists.

Canon developed something new and I bet it's either an EF mount with variable flange distance (moving sensor maybe?) OR it will be the EF mount with new lenses that allow the rear element to extend into the camera body and effectively reduce the flange distance at the same time as making the overall lens extension from the camera shorter.

I expect some recognition from this group when Canon reveals that the solution is one of these two options. =p
 
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