A couple of weeks ago Ken Rockwell said that the Canon EOS-M is the first professional mirrorless camera. Now we will hear the exact opposite form another blogger đŸ™‚ Kirk Tuck says that “Canon missed the whole point”. He writes that the EOS-M “is basically a re-do of their boring G1X bloated compact camera but without the swivel screen, without the pop-up flash and without even the benefit of a creepy, point 85 plastic optical viewfinder.  So you actually get a lot less stuff but the same performance for the same basic price point?  And this makes sense to rational photographers? How?“
You can choose who is right. I think Canon released a nice camera, at least it’s a lot more competitive than the Nikon 1 if you consider the price-features balance. But I am sure Nikon is ready to answer them soon!
P.S.: Hands-on at ThePhoBlographer and Trendy Nikkei (japanese). Mirrorless camera (pre-)order rankings at Amazon (Click here).
Canon EOS-M preorder links:
Full presentation page on Amazon (Click here).
EOS-M Black at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M White at BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 22mm pancake at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 15-55mm kit lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M adapter at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M Flash at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
9 Responses
Neither Ken nor Kirk are the bloggers I value as balanced and unbiased. In this specific case I think both are wrong (again)!
The new Canon is a clever little thing targeted at P&S upgraders. There will be other camera housings that aims at enthusiasts.
BTW: How can so many have such STRONG views about a camera that no one has used?
Lol, How can you say it’s clever little thing if you have not USED it
Kirk Tuck seems to contradict himself. Is bloated good or bad? Clearly the EOS M will be capable of higher quality images than the G1X. The EOS M, if anything, is too stripped down.
It’s Obvious that Ken is very inexperienced in terms of mirrorless camera developments. He commented that Cannon ES-M is the first professional mirrorless camera where Fuji, Oly, Panny, Samsung, and Sony ones are just consumer products. I questioned his bias toward Cannon and Nikon as 2nd tier company because of the dSLR dominance.
In terms of mirrorless camera, the All of the companies above are years ahead of the developments compare to Cannikon and they have all awesome bodies to start with. the M4/3 have the largest native mirroless lens selections, Samsung NX has about 10+ glasses , the Sony Nex can use ALL of the A-mount lens in AF with LA-EA2 adaptor.
In addition, Nikon 1 is a dud and no professional will buy them since the CX format sensor is poor in IQ for professional demand. I will give Canon some time since it just launch the body and I have respect for its APS-C senors. But Ken please don’t call out other brands’ mirrorless camera as consumer products instead of professional’s backup or weekend getaway camera.
You don’t have to put your hand in the blender to know it’s going to hurt and you don’t need to use a stripped down camera with no facility for an EVF to know that you’re going to end up standing around like a fool holding a camera at arm’s length like a stinky baby diaper while you squint at a screen on the back trying to make out what’s going on in the image while the sun beats down and reflects off the LCD surface, making composition nearly impossible. Even Kirk is smart enough to know that without touching the camera.
Kirk Tuck is the ‘yin’ of Ken Rockwell’s ‘yang’… all noise. No substance.
Canon’s EOS-M: One step forward, two steps back.
If this is the best Canon can offer, given their pace with ILC offerings, then Canon is in BIG TROUBLE against Sony, Olympus, & Panasonic.
EOS-M is too expensive w/ lackluster features compared to other competitors’ models, at similar price. I guess Canon’s selling point is the APSC-sized sensor.
Strike two, Canon.
To be fair, I think Ken Rockwell’s words were, that the Canon EOS-M was “… world’s first serious mirrorless camera” not “first professional mirrorless camera.”
I would disagree with either statement. Professional mean some made some money, which I think can be done with good 4/3 sensor mirrorless camera and serious camera? Well that can have some very wide meaning to it.
I have created some very nice work with my Panasonic G2 with the kit short zoom. I have already made a beautiful 12×12 inch print that was shown in a gallery exhibition and I think that is pretty serious. I have sold a few prints created with by Panasonic G2, so that sounds fairly professional to me.
My 2 cents.
Mark
I’m totally baffled as to why Rockwell considers the EOS-M a serious camera. It has no external controls. Reports say that its autofocus us slow and uncertain. It’s more expensive than similarly spec’d cameras. It has good image quality, but what currently released compact camera doesn’t? All I can think of is that it’s serious because Canon makes it.
He knocks Fuji for having few lenses. Let’s see: there are 3, with 3 more announced. Canon has 1 with 1 more announced. Huh? Has Rockwell ever used a NEX-7 or an OMD? Oh, thy can’t be serious cameras because they aren’t made by Canon or Nikon.