Canon EOS M100 for Street Photography

Anyone using one of these? Curious about shutter noise, exposure control, speed, b&w jpegs, etc.

Nope, not yet.

• B&W JPEGs: Prolly below what Fuji spoiled you are used to, but not too bad in general; surely worth saving for inspiration during processing your RAWs. (<-Guesswork based on X-E1 & EOS 5D IV). TBH: I haven't seen SOOC B&W that knocks my socks off entirely and would go to print as is. Whatever I bring home needs some manual work unlike color JPEGs that can be kind of acceptable as they are or after auto correcting in Picasa (which doesn't really work for B&W either).
  
• Shutter noise seems quite moderate in everything EOS. - Even a SLR mirror flipping around in silent mode seems less annoying or at very least on the same level as the motorized re-cocking noise of a CCD Leica.
  
• Dual Pixel AF is quite awesome until you start trying low light flash photography with dim zooms. I'd stick to the conventional approach (either RF or SLR with faster glass & focus assist beam) for that. The M100 BTW encourages doing so by having no hotshoe.
  

Not sure what you mean about exposure control. - EOS in green Auto mode works not too badly. What else does a street shooter need? Or: What would you do differently with a fully manual film beater? - I haven't learned hand held metering for digital B&W yet. I.e. on film we worried to get details into our shadows, on digital we should worry about preserving our highlights. Dynamic range of the current small EOSs is neither great nor worse than our old cameras'. I'd shoot street at a pre-selected shutter speed with auto aperture and auto ISO. - With film I'd alter my aperture by hand as needed but would happily take a bit of extra DOF, when it comes my way for street. Semi-zone focusing and auto AF spot selection would both benefit from it.

 

Try to maybe watch or read some detailed reviews about the M100.

I'd miss an EVF and a screen flipping towards the side, to shoot WLF-like in portrait orientation. Otherwise the M100 looks like a better choice than an old contrast AF Fuji to me. - At least for shooting people. For landscapes I'd stick to Fuji; Canon color is no match to that JPEG convenience.

Most of the time I like to use "P" mode and the exposure compensation dial to lighten or darken what I see on the screen. A 24mp APS-C camera for $400 seems interesting. Got to stay off that B&H site for a few more weeks.

M100 will work, I use the older Canon M5 and 22/2 'pancake' for "streets"

 

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A 24mp APS-C camera for $400 seems interesting.

Dunno. I wouldn't expect much from it's 24MP with a kit zoom.

What will that marvel resolve? - 8 MP for 4K viewing, at it's better end or sweet spot? - The rest of the sensor resolution is either for pixel binning, during denoising high ISO shots or for lenses you'll have to add and most likely adapt too. (I don't say "I wouldn't buy one"; I am just saying: If I'll buy one, I won't expect it to be any better resolving, at base ISO, than our X-E1s or an M8 or 14MP crop SLR.)

I haven't tested high pixel density APS sensors myself. I believe in seeing some lenses "fall apart" on low res early 6MP cameras and think middle aged medium resolution sensors are demanding enough on the imperfect glass I have. - The difference between 24 and less MP might be visible between latest and previous Fujis behind decent primes or if you mount a macro lens on different SLR generations.

You are right Jochen. My 12mp Nikon was always more than enough. 16mp seemed like absolute overkill for what I do. What would I possible do with 24mp?!