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I like the cannon esm more than I expected less than I should have the design of cannons first and only interchangeable-lens compact stands out it's got a nice well built and well conceived metal body that's compact it comfortable to grip single-handed while I wish it were tilt a bowl or articulated the touchscreens quite responsive with a streamlined interface and the hard controls are simple but effective the camera also delivers excellent photo quality though not more excellent than competitors like the NEX 5r you can comfortably shoot JPEGs up through iso 1600 but at all iso sensitivities i could get better results in some way or another by processing the raw files in part that's because none of the cameras color presets to live a really accurate color and I find a lot of hue that I don't like however I suspect a lot of people will find the colours pleasing enough I'm all the videos fine for typical vacation clips and the autofocus and video doesn't pulse annoyingly there's a lot more muah ray and aliasing than I think there really should be plus the low-light video is fairly noisy looking you do have complete manual controls in video which is nice but the camera lack speaking to help with manual focus for both stills and video and feature sets otherwise fairly blah it's got a handful of special effects it doesn't really render them with any novelty that's got a hot shoe but there's no option for an electronic viewfinder and the only flash is optional and bulky but the real Achilles heel of the camera is performance even with the hybrid phase and contrast detection autofocus system it's really slow to focus and shoot in a lot of circumstances it's great for capturing kids and animals if you want them half out of the frame and while it can maintain a pretty fast burst that's not with autofocus enabled the fact that there are only two native lenses for the system an 18 to 55 millimeter standard kit and the 22 millimeter f2 pancake makes less attractive more established systems sure you can pay about 200 bucks for an adaptor to support other canon lenses but it shoots nice photos and it feels good in your hands but unfortunately it doesn't out do most of the competition I'm Laurie grinning and this is the canon eos m