First, watch the video on top. It shows the Canon EOS-M AF speed with the 18-55mm lens set at his widest angle. And now watch the video shot with the soon to be releases 2.02 firmware:
Gosh what a difference! Dind’t know a firmware can do that kind of…miracles 🙂
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He is also using a different AF selection. Doesn’t seem like a good comparison.
Yes, the second video seems to have a fixed focusing location. Whereas the first video appears to have the focusing point be decided by the camera (from a multi-point mode).
Can someone explain to me why this firmware was created? A company developes a camera. They test it in the lab, they test it out in the field by giving models out to reviewers and focus groups….whatever. Did nobody ever mention things like focusing speed. ….?.
Why didnt canon program this $hit before final production?
I was programming whole computer systems for 18 years. I tested the product dozens of times. They would tell me that something was too slow, and I would tell them if it could be done .
Sure.. There are some issues which can only surface after the final product is in production. But looking at that first video, its obvious that af is slow.. Should have been programmed in, at the start. A firmware for a new lens, I understand….. But a basic function ????????
“They would tell me that something was too slow, and I would tell them if it could be done.”
Welcome to the real world, man.
N.B. I too am software developer. Sale of one of my employers actually bragged that their product is slow, but that’s fine since many customers are forced to buy two!
Otherwise, you probably haven’t noticed it yet, because you haven’t looked hard. Canon and Nikon (and Panasonic (now sure about Sony)) are very well known for crippling performance of the low tier cameras so that they do not compete with the mid tier cameras. Mid tier cameras are crippled in firmware to not to compete with the upper tier cameras.
Simple fact: pink girly Panasonic GF6, the low end of the low end, has IQ which is better than almost any camera of 5 years ago (modulo exotic lens configuration or OVF). Corollary: if GF6 firmware would have had all the bells and whistles, if the body was outfitted with all the connectors and so on, it could have replaced quite a lot of cameras for many many users today. But that would have been devastating for the business. Thus, to fragment the market and milk it better, manufacturers routinely cripple firmware, body and connector options to make sure that a $500 body would never ever replace a $1000 body or a $3000 body. Despite the fact that the IQ gap, as 99% of real life scenarios concerned, is really negligible.
It is the comparison of multi-point vs single-point AF. Multi-point was especially slow on EOS M and should be improved, single point will be about the same (still slower than m43).
You have single point comparisons here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY2hRzGlN30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsU_sosrbnE
All videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/theCHZy/videos
Great comparison. Easy to see that multipoint AF on FW ver 2 usually uses fewer AF zones, usually 3 instead of 6. Single point AF is also faster, but not by a lot.
The admin should have posted the video with the multi af point too, but you can find that the video uploader, put all the kinds of comparisons at different focal lengths and lens using single and multi af point on his youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/theCHZy/videos
Let us hope that this will speed up their inventory clearance attempts via super sales and obviate the need to give them away with cereal or bread.
still much slower than my samsung nx300, but better than before.
are you getting paid to advertise your camera? I’ve seen people make legitimate comparisons with their camera but your comments are repetitive and annoying to see
Much better than before, but even with the increased speed, it is still the slowest mirrorless camera by far for auto focusing. Maybe the Fuji x-pro1 is close.
Sooooo, is this increase good enough to bring the M in to the usable territory? Or are there other problems with it?
I really want to get this camera…..But im just scared canon isnt going to support it like they really need to. Im not worried about the camera as long as it works like its supposed to, im more worried about them bringing out primes and all that jazz. A small 30mm F1.8/2 is needed for me. I could deal with a really great 22mm for a little while, but 50mm equiv is my fav.
Im seeing used 22mm kits going for 250-280….its soooo hard to not buy it!!
They did this to the Powershot Pro1 many years ago. It was a completely different camera after the update.
Faster AF at cost of consistency.
In the first video the f-number was between f/7.1 to f/8.0, in the second one it is pretty arbitrarily floats between f/6.3 and f/9.0.
Would be interesting to compare the behavior of f-numbers on m43 and NEX (and NX) too.
I may be completely wrong as I have confirmed, but I am pretty sure it meters wide open as well as when AFing – So should be irrelevant what F-Stop it is indicating. If anything the faster ramping suggests the updated firmware also adapts to changing light more quickly.