Has the M-Series Arrived?

[HDNitehawk]

I charged the battery and put a card in the camera last night and left it for the wife to find. She sent me a message and told me how much she loved it, it was smaller and more compact than the t4i and she knew she was going to like it. I should mention she didn't know how to turn it on and she just left it on the table all night. What she sees as value in the camera isn't the same as our view.

Swapping the 18-55mm for the 18-150mm seems to lose sight of the main positive, the small size of the camera. On trips the wife occasional wants a longer focal length lens, not often but the subject always comes up on trips.

[Busted Knuckles]

Some thoughts on the M series and mirrorless. Not trying to jack the thread, and it will come round tuit again - the M series that is.

HD - interesting real world handling issues that you have surfaced.

I have said a couple of times the basic functionality of the M5 on FF would be a great 6DII (mirrorless too). Same MP count, still oriented to lower light efforts. 4k would make it a gang buster for enthusiast vids.

Other than some minor expense - I guess it doesn't come up that often - why wouldn't the man'f make a 'lens change shutter' such that the sensor would not be open to the elements when changing a lens.

I am in the middle of a full on system re-eval. I get 14 bit color depth and DR - though I have never really printed to that depth - 8 bit only and my two 4k SUHD TVs only have 10 bit and that is pretty cool. I can't really understand what the leap to 14 would yield - better but how much? I have no experience for context.

As 4k and 10 bit - I watched a 4k 10bit video over the holidays - WOW! simply WOW! having said this, a few minutes into it, I was focused on the plot not the IQ. But really noticed the IQ first several minutes of the vid.

So when looking at the options for a full on system replace for the mirrorless/ or even smallish size as a 1st filter - $$ is in 2nd but as long as it is below 5k total change out costs (rules out Leica). The Pany, Oly, Sony, options are just so darn feature rich, and 99.999999% of image viewing will be on a screen converting 14 bit to 10 bit will last me quite awhile - even Dell's 8k monitor is 10bit. The unavoidable collision is the diffraction f stop that starts to degrade image quality of MF to FF due to pixel size.

So in conclusion,
I am holding on for a couple more months hoping that Canon makes an announcement that moves the "M" series into the competitive feature set. They may be aimed a bit higher on the pro/enthusiast pixel peeping, diffraction unlimited, continuum than where I think I am settling.