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July 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Canon shook up the camera world on Monday with its own version of a mirrorless camera featuring interchangeable lenses with the debut of the slim and versatile EOS M. Promoted as a digital video powerhouse, the new EOS is essentially a digital SLR camera shrunk into a smaller package.
You may have heard of the Micro Four-Thirds cameras from the likes of Olympus and Panasonic, which are also mirrorless designs. Without the mechanical mirror system that’s a feature of DSLRs, they tend to be much more compact.
Canon aims to improve on the overall concept of the mirrorless camera in a couple of key ways:
- By using a larger image sensor, the 18-megapixel APS-C that’s used in DSLRs like the recently unveiled T4i.
- Giving the EOS M the same autofocus system as the T4i, with fast response and the ability to use continuous autofocus for video, with special lenses that produce very little noise.
Canon unveiled the EOS M at an event in Tokyo and hasn’t released all the specs, so we don’t know the exact size of the camera, but from the photos it’s clearly significantly smaller than most DSLRs. That compactness has a price, however: it uses different-size lenses than standard Canon EF or EF-S designs (although an optional $200 mount makes them compatible).
Instead, the EOS M uses M-series lenses, of which there are two: a prime lens that ships with the camera, which has a fixed 22mm focal length with f/2 aperture, and a $299.99 zoom lens with typical specs: 18-55mm/f3.5-5.6. When shooting video with either lens, the camera will continuously adjust the focus on your subject, with minimal noise.
SEE ALSO: Canon G1 X: The Camera Caught Between Two Worlds [REVIEW]Helping you shoot movies are a manual exposure control, a built in stereo microphone and the ability to take snapshots while shooting video. For stills, the ISO can go as high as 25,600, and the camera includes Canon’s latest image-processing tech, DIGIC 5.
In addition to its photographic abilities, the Canon EOS M boasts a 3-inch touchscreen in back, which borrows some functions popularized by smartphones — namely pinch-to-zoom and swiping to scroll through photo sets.
At the same time as the EOS M, Canon is also debuting a lightweight external flash, the Speedlite 90EX ($149.99).
The EOS M will go on sale in October for $799.99, with either white or black casing.
What do you think of Canon’s venture into the world of mirroless cameras? Would you buy one, and what would you use it for? Let us know in the comments.
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