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Canon M3
My primary camera is a Canon 5D3. I decided recently that I wanted a
smaller camera for short trips, carrying around casually. I finally decided on a Canon M3. I looked around in here for some discussion about it, but don't see anything. So far, I don't have any dedicated M lenses. I do have an EF adapter, and have been using my Canon F.14 50 mm EF, and a Rokinon 8mm wide angle. The wide angle is fun. Size wise, it reminds me of my old Pentax Auto 110, 110-film SLR. Couple of things I notice though, is that if you have big hands, this thing is almost too small. Very easy to hit controls when you are just trying to hold it. The other thing that I've found bothers me is the electronic view finder. I hate holding a camera at arm's length to look at the display. So I bought the electronic view finder. If this is any indication of EVFs, I'm happy to stick with an SLR for serious phnotography. I can't make out if it's in sharp focus or not. Anybody else notice these things? Once things are in focus, I've got no problem with the pictures it produces. |
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Canon M3
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RichA wrote: Plus, any discussion on the quality of EVF's is water under the bridge now as good ones (Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fuji) have long since passed optical viewfinders in-terms of flexibility. You simply cannot focus as well with a DSLR as you can an EVF that can magnify images 3-10x with a button press or even just a touch of focus ring on a lens. nonsense. |
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Canon M3
nospam wrote:
In article , RichA wrote: Plus, any discussion on the quality of EVF's is water under the bridge now as good ones (Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fuji) have long since passed optical viewfinders in-terms of flexibility. You simply cannot focus as well with a DSLR as you can an EVF that can magnify images 3-10x with a button press or even just a touch of focus ring on a lens. nonsense. For MF I will take my Fujifilm EVF with either electronic split image or peak focus and MF assist over the PIA MF provided via OVF with any of my Nikon DSLR's every time. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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In article , Savageduck
wrote: Plus, any discussion on the quality of EVF's is water under the bridge now as good ones (Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fuji) have long since passed optical viewfinders in-terms of flexibility. You simply cannot focus as well with a DSLR as you can an EVF that can magnify images 3-10x with a button press or even just a touch of focus ring on a lens. nonsense. For MF I will take my Fujifilm EVF with either electronic split image or peak focus and MF assist over the PIA MF provided via OVF with any of my Nikon DSLR's every time. i'll take a real optical viewfinder any day of the week, particularly when the camera's multipoint autofocus blows away anything found on an evf camera. |
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Canon M3
nospam wrote:
In article , Savageduck wrote: Plus, any discussion on the quality of EVF's is water under the bridge now as good ones (Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fuji) have long since passed optical viewfinders in-terms of flexibility. You simply cannot focus as well with a DSLR as you can an EVF that can magnify images 3-10x with a button press or even just a touch of focus ring on a lens. nonsense. For MF I will take my Fujifilm EVF with either electronic split image or peak focus and MF assist over the PIA MF provided via OVF with any of my Nikon DSLR's every time. i'll take a real optical viewfinder any day of the week, particularly when the camera's multipoint autofocus blows away anything found on an evf camera. There are times when one chooses to use MF rather than multipoint AF. There is a time and place for various AF options with AF-S or AF-C, and AF-C tracking options. When it comes to manual focus the current generation of EVF with MF assist "blows away" any OVF manual focus provided current DSLR offerings. You ought to try it sometime, but I am sure that you are going to tell me that you have, and multipoint AF is so much better and "nobody uses manual focus anyway." -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 1/3/2017 8:02 PM, Savageduck wrote:
nospam wrote: In article , Savageduck wrote: Plus, any discussion on the quality of EVF's is water under the bridge now as good ones (Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fuji) have long since passed optical viewfinders in-terms of flexibility. You simply cannot focus as well with a DSLR as you can an EVF that can magnify images 3-10x with a button press or even just a touch of focus ring on a lens. nonsense. For MF I will take my Fujifilm EVF with either electronic split image or peak focus and MF assist over the PIA MF provided via OVF with any of my Nikon DSLR's every time. i'll take a real optical viewfinder any day of the week, particularly when the camera's multipoint autofocus blows away anything found on an evf camera. There are times when one chooses to use MF rather than multipoint AF. There is a time and place for various AF options with AF-S or AF-C, and AF-C tracking options. When it comes to manual focus the current generation of EVF with MF assist "blows away" any OVF manual focus provided current DSLR offerings. You ought to try it sometime, but I am sure that you are going to tell me that you have, and multipoint AF is so much better and "nobody uses manual focus anyway." And any examples to the contrary of what he says, will be edge cases. -- PeterN |
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Canon M3
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:54:16 -0500, rwalker wrote:
: My primary camera is a Canon 5D3. I decided recently that I wanted a : smaller camera for short trips, carrying around casually. I finally : decided on a Canon M3. I looked around in here for some discussion : about it, but don't see anything. I wish you'd mentioned it. I'd have told you to look on the Canon forum (http://forums.usa.canon.com/t5/Camera/ct-p/camera). There's a really competent M3 owner there who could have advised you. This newsgroup is great for general camera discussion and lore. For model-specific info about Canon equipment, the Canon forum is better. On that forum, if you do go looking, I'm known as "RobertTheFat". Bob |
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Canon M3
In article , PeterN
wrote: And any examples to the contrary of what he says, will be edge cases. for you, i'd say nut case. |
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