Is the Canon EOS M Still Worth Buying In 2023? (Was It Ever?)

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[Makingthetransition]

Did you really just compare the EOS M to the $5, 000 plus Canon C70? Great video by the way. You have extremely good skills in regards to both film, storytelling and editing. I would reduce the music slightly, like another person mentioned (just slightly).

[DanielAguilar-eyxg]

Hey Edmund! I'm 21 and I'm from Mexico, salary here is pretty rubbish, I can roughly make 50 usd per week bc I also go to college so a bmpcc4k or anything on that kind of budget is pretty much out of my league. I've started to dive into these EOS M videos and I'm loving them, they have pretty much revitalized my hopes for an affordable camera to make my short films :), I've even considered selling my T6i to start building a EOS M rig so I'm hoping to get more updates from you and your journey with the EOS M, have a nice day! <3

[MatthewBelonio]

its so mobile portable and light. im sure you can figure out where else you would like to have a crash cam. SUPER glad to hear that the reliability of ML open source software is getting more and more reliable as the engineers tweak...its nice to have an options of tools...

[imothy]

This month we've seen rapid development in the magic lantern world, 240mhz overclocking for the SD card means higher resolutions, and more stable at 1080, plus higher framerates. They continue to make optimizations to the firmware, who knows what the next 6 months to a year will bring us.

[ohnvokl]

I love the design and the OG metal body. You can get great pictures from ist. But it is clunky and slow.

[tonyt]

Are you using the danne’s version of magic lantern. This version branch out from the official one and has more features and better stability

[elmerkilred]

I bought my EOS M in 2012/13. I paid $600.00 for two batteries, a charger, the EOS body, the 22MM f/2 prime pancake lens, and the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM zoom. This is my go to camera, and I have not experienced any buyer's remorse. I use it almost every day, and have incorporated Magic Lantern into the software side. My old Canon AE1 FD lenses are being used because of all the adapters that are available. I also have old zeiss 3 element 135mm projector lenses from the 1920s on the M, and I have even adapted a Medium format Hasselblad 80mm Planar lens that turns the M into a literal "Hand Cannon!" This is the best camera I have ever had, and if I wanted to step up, I'd have to get Leica.

[andriimartynov]

Just bought one for 146£.
I already have ML experience with my old canon 50d, which was abandoned for almost 5 years.
Now with ML this old camera is able to shoot 11s of 14bit HD raw. Which looks pretty impressive.
I haven’t started using the EOS M yet because the EF to EF m adapter hasn’t arrived. And I have nigh hopes. Earlier this year I’ve bought a GoPro, started making videos learning Davinci resolve…

I am fully aware of how the Magic Lantern works, what to expect and how inconvenient it is.
Oh course for you with canon C70 using EOS M makes no sense.

PS. Awesome video, style atmosphere, etc.

[andresgonzalezcerda]

I add a speed booster and man, what a results with vintage lens for that price!!

[TomSidProductions]

It took me a little under a year to figure out how to take advantage of crop mood.
I was always confused about why I couldn't get anything to work and I found out that it wasn't my cards.
It was the camera itself.
It's data rate can't go over 87MB/s without becoming unstable.

The one thing that also annoys me (but this is the cost of using an eos-m) is that I have to shoot 1-2 dud video clips that can't be used, but all other clips after that are stable and can be used for recording.

So keep that in mind of you use this for shooting stuff.

Once you turn the camera on, (I also recommend using the card warm up feature), you should just aim at the ground or something and just record until it stops. (should be about 2 seconds or so) Do it again, after doing two clips like this, all other records will be stable.

At least, that's with my eos-m. I'm sure it might vary depending on other cameras.

[roofusJohnson]

I think buying an eos m made me want to buy a real cinema camera that didn't work off of a microscopic crop on a nearly weightless camera. It worked properly 50% of the time and it left me wanting a camera that worked without having to beg it to do so. I just couldn't do it.

[DeSireeAlicea]

I tried using magic lantern but I think the program is just over my head. I gave up on it twice and just started using the original camera. It’s a really nice camera. It’s absolutely tiny and can fit almost anywhere you wanna take it! I think it’s worth it for some still :)

[vladimirkirillovskiy]

Well if you have C70 it doesn't worth it :) But for a poor man cinema camera it is a good one. I recently picked one up, and I'm impressed. In my experience, 2.8K is the best in resolution and usability. Good details as well as continuous shooting (24fps, 10bit). Crop is inconvenient, agreed, but in 2.8k mode I think it is around 2.5x crop or so. No real time preview is inconvenient as well, but can be dealt with on locked shots. None of these issues are present for 1080p or 5k anamorphic frtp modes (5k frtp is not real 5k).
Most people who disappointed in it, they don't want to learn it, in your case you have C70, so you have much easier way to shoot good footage :)

[landocks]

so if i get this camera, will it have trouble working with a wide/fisheye lens? I would prefer to shoot in the 8-12mm range and you said in the video that yours wasnt working with a wide lens, but I just wanna know if one off of ebay would work fine as long as the lens i get works with ef-m mounts.

[rickylefleur]

We need more of these video's. My cam already tripled in value, cause all of the demand for those EOS M. You're 100% spot on, the UI sucks and it's far from a point and shoot camera. Honestly, nobody claimed it to be in the first place. The comment section is pure gold.

[thelateraledge]

Apologies as I don't know much about this topic but why exactly are people picking the EOS M over the other cameras supported ? (5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, 6D, 7D, 50D, 60D, 500D/T1i, 550D/T2i, 600D/T3i, 650D/T4i, 700D/T5i, 1100D/T3)

Is it just the price of the EOS M? the form factor? Lens system? or what?

Is there the possibility of better performance on any of the other supported cameras? Have people tried testing any of the other camera models with the firmware?

[nadtz]

I've been playing with the recently released crop mood build on a recently acquired EOS M and my YouTube wanderings have led me here. After realizing there are a few things I shouldn't do which will crash the camera CM has been pretty stable for me given it's limitations. Not having messed with prior builds I can't really say much about them but being somewhat of a tinkerer/technical guy after playing with crop mood for a couple hours I'd have to agree with you about the additional crop. I have a sigma 30 and a set of Kiev-16U lenses, when 12mm becomes 'normalish' depending on what settings you are using indoors it makes you question things. That said comparing the default video output and the raw output is astonishing but I'm by no means even an advanced amateur when it comes to video stuff so what I'm learning is how much I have to learn once again.

Just wondering if this is still of interest and if you've messed with crop mood at all, seems it's been quite the update for some people and as a newbie after watching bilals 'settings' video i've had no major problems with it.

[MG-Makes]

Amazing this doesn't get more views, fanatic editing. My Eos T6 is finally starting to give up the ghost after 5 years. I most shoot nature and star photography, do you think the M5 is a good pick? Love the light weight factor!

[ShinyTechThings]

I think it probably needs some more work and testing to get it working. Great video BTW, subbed and can't wait to see what you make with the EOS M.

[MasterT-nc]

Great camera for what it is.👍 Music is little too laud.😐 Good editing.👍