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HI VivekMy thoughts:
Easily better than Nikon 1 and Pentax Q/K.
Look forward to the next model (swivel LCD and EVF?) as the 1.6X crop may fare better with some of the manual focus lenses I have than the 1.5X crop sensor in the NEX.
The touch screen looks really useful as is the flash hotshoe.
Samsung NX is now bound feel the pinch and it will help Sony.
Hi KeithRaist3d sure is doing some lovely stuff with that toy Pentax Q. My K-01 is my favorite street camera coupled with the beautiful 14mm Pentax DA and a CV 21 viewfinder - but then I'm daft (first to admit it )
Keith
Hi Jono,"Oh - we can do that too . . . Now let's get back to the serious stuff of selling dSLRs"
WRT 18-55 we only can hope it is far better than the APSC-DSLR 18-55 from Canon, because this one is really for the garbage!Hi Jono,
While there may be similarities to the current NEX-F3, the EOS-M appears better. The earlier NEX cams (3, 5, 5n, C3) all are crippled having no flash hotshoe and no useful touch screen.
The NEX-F3 handles well. However, the way it is built makes you try it at eye level. There is no EVF. A pity.
Lenses: Let us see if the 22mm f/2 is is as horrible as the E 16/2.8 and the 18-55 as bad as the E 18-55 (at the wide end) before passing judgements based on the looks alone.
[Edit: Canon EOS M hands-on preview: Digital Photography Review a couple of comments on the lenses there. Also notes the presence of a fairly quiet shutter with electronic first curtain shutter. Offered in NEX-F3 and is absent in NEX-3, 5 and C3]
The flash system Canon have are really versatile and useful. The video formats offered are useful as well.
I am happy to see the EOS-M for many reasons-
Sony, instead of trying to follow Samsung have someone else to think about.
I do not think the toy cams from Nikon and Pentax need to be compared. They were dead on arrival, AFAIC.
Hi JorgenLooks like a camera without a purpose to me. Both the Nikon and the tiny Pentax look like better solutions. Small sensors will only get better, but Canon will always have to struggle with bigger lenses, particularly the zooms, for the larger sensor. The best compromise still seems to be m4/3.
By that line of logic why should anyone be investing in anything but compacts though?Looks like a camera without a purpose to me. Both the Nikon and the tiny Pentax look like better solutions. Small sensors will only get better, but Canon will always have to struggle with bigger lenses, particularly the zooms, for the larger sensor. The best compromise still seems to be m4/3.