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Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com and this is a preview of the Canon EOS M6.
Now, before any of you out there think that the M6 is replacing the M5, which it's not,
Canon has officially changed their naming scheme for their mirrorless cameras.
So just like their DSLRs, the lower the number, the better the camera is supposed to be.
For example, you go from the 80D to the 7D to the 5D to the 1D Series, those are considered
better as the numbers get lower, so in this case, the M6 is not better than the M5, but
let's get to the specs and talk about that right now.
You have a 24.2 Megapixel CMOS sensor.
Now that's a same you'll find in the M5, the 80D, the 77D and the T7i.
You have a DIGIC 7 processor.
It also has 100-25600 ISO natively.
It has 49 Auto Focus points, which is the same as the M5.
Most of these specs by the way, I'm going to give you a little hint, are probably the
same as the M5.
I'm going to tell you the differences in just a second.
Nine frames a second, if you are in Single-Focus mode.
You can do seven frames a second in Continuous-Servo.
It has Dual-Pixel CMOS AF, which is great for video as well as shooting your stills
using a live view.
It has No Touch to Drag AF, which the M5 does, and I love that feature.
It has a 3-inch tilting LCD touch screen that actually flips up unlike the M5.
Now let me show you that real quick.
The M5 goes like this, the fourth, fifth.
Now if it's on a tripod, you won't be able to see it, but the M6 flips up like this.
Look it flips up, so you can see it over the top.
The reason they can do that is because it doesn't have the EVF built-in and let me put
that down.
What's the difference between that and the M5?
Let me pick up the M5 that I just put down.
It has no EVF, that's right, no electronic viewfinder.
I love the viewfinder on this camera.
I'm not going to put it down again, because I want to hold on to it.
It has Wi-Fi/NFC and Bluetooth built-in or by the way if you want an add-in EVF, you
can add an EVF to the M6.
They just didn't give us the official price, but if I had to guess, based off of the price
of the older EVF, it's going to be anywhere between $250 and $300 to add that to your
camera.
Let's see, what else do we have?
The video features, 1080 at 60 frames a second, no 4K.
I am well aware that other mirrorless camera companies have made 4K in smaller cameras.
I again, am going to say this, that most consumers, because this is a consumer camera, don't need
4K, because they don't know what to do with it, they don't know how to edit it, they don't
have TVs or monitors to watch it back, and they don't know where to store it, and they
don't have computers that are fast enough to process it.
So for the most part, 4K is not needed.
Now it's not all eye, like you will find in the 80D, but for the most part, the video
is going to be pretty good, that you're going to get out of it.
Now the price; $779.99.
Now how much is this M5 body only?
Hmm, $979.99.
That is a, let me count, so $200 difference, right there.
So if the EVF is at least $200 more, you're probably better off just buying an M5.
The body is basically the same.
You can see from the pictures on the screen.
They're almost the same, except for some moving of some dials.
Now that is that.
I did do a Real World Review of this M5, which you can check out.
Just look for the eye button in the top right hand corner, go ahead and look for my M5 Real
World Review, so you can see, how it works, because that's probably how the M6 is going
to work, except it doesn't have a viewfinder.
I also think that the new naming scheme is a hint at the future of what Canon is working
on, because if they weren't going to continue on with mirrorless, they wouldn't care about
changing the names of them or the numbering sequence, so I think we might see a full frame
box at some point one day.
So if you are looking for an M6, I would tell you not to buy an M6, Canon's probably going
to shoot me for that one, but I don't care, because the M5 for $200 more with an EVF is
the one that you should be getting, because using an EVF is better than trying to hold
a camera like this and take pictures.
That's what I have to say about that.
That is your preview of the EOS M6.
This is the M5.
I recommend this one higher, because it has the EVF, which I just said.
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That's it.
What do you think; would you buy the M6 or the M5?
Leave a comment down below.
Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com.
See you.