A year and a half, this is the time that has elapsed since the launch of the EOS M first compact with interchangeable lenses from Canon. A year and a half during which the brand has hardly sought to capitalize on his camera: at most an update did it come quietly, just to silence critics on the exasperating slowness of operation
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This summer, we thought that the EOS 70D, and particularly its bold autofocus system “Dual pixel”, announced EOS M2. Indeed, this new system phase correlation across the sensor live view offered almost the same performance as the reflex viewfinder, there was promise in the idea of ??a new IOC …
surprise is great: nothing that the EOS M2 which has been announced in Japan. It has indeed a hybrid autofocus, but it is the classic CMOS AF II saw on the EOS 100D, which uses some modified to phase correlation photosites. Significantly less effective, it does not preclude a claim Canon greatly improved autofocus, which is probably true (the difference between the EOS 650D and EOS 100D is a real), but we can not help thinking that it was can do better by adopting the sensor in the EOS 70D.
Non-novelty for a non-ad
For the rest, the EOS M2 is very similar to the previous model, the main novelty is the introduction of a WiFi connection. No swivel screen, no built-in flash, no more generous battery …
importantly, its launch is ultimately rather bad news for the system to which it belongs. First, because Canon announces no new perspective: 11-22 mm, 18-55 mm and the 22 mm thus remain alone in the catalog, despite all the good we think it is very light for face competing optical ranges more complete.
Then, because the EOS M2 is for the time announced that Japan, where the IOC best taken, and nothing indicates that it will export a day! The EOS M is sold off more than ever – it is one of the few devices whose price has fallen by more than half in a year, although still far from the record of the Sigma SD1 – and Europe should a priori , wait a few months his eventual successor … Canon France is currently not able to clearly answer the question.
The Canon website
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