New firmware

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_m_ef_m_22mm_stm_kit#DriversAndSoftware

@leonbeas

It depends on if you really want it. May be best to wait for new generation?

EOS-M Focus Pulls

Using the touch screen to focus pull at dusk, so dim light. Uses the new firmware and the kit lens. Seems effective - no seeking or bouncing, and focused where I wanted it to:

No focus peaking (though there is focus magnification for all lenses), just very accurate and fine AF where you place your finger on the lcd - this works for ALL Canon lenses with AF, not just the kit lenses. I have even tried out the Tamron 70-300mm AF VR lens, and AF works just as well as the kit lens.

Thanks, @markr041 for the info. I certainly got one (in silver) in the body since it was too late to get both the $299 deals or Pentax K-0,1 so I caved and gotten one before they're all gone. Here's a pic of the model with a Minolta MD 50mm 1.8 lens a friend of mine gave me. I'm liking the fact that I can have manual custom settings for video - even with low light. May I ask, what do you think of the video in low light?

I'm quite late to the party, here's a vid I did with EOS-M. I'm liking it so far. Shot with the Minolta MD lens.

There's a lot to like about the Canon EOS M. Unfortunately, there was even more to dislike about it during my first shooting experiences with it. In fact, before the firmware update last month, the EOS M had a flaw so large that I couldn't in good conscience recommend it to anyone, as it was. Its autofocus speed was utterly abysmal -- truly, worryingly slow. For comparison's sake, I own a Canon SX200 point-and-shoot from 2009, and this 3-year-old point-and-shoot focused faster and more accurately than the EOS M.

And not only was the Canon EOS M sluggish to focus in bright light, but also it was an absolute mess when faced with dark shooting conditions. Low-light AF was glacial, seesawing back and forth as it struggled to find focus, and frequently downright failing to lock on anything at all. And when I shot with multiple-point autofocus on, the camera was slower still.

Late to the mirrorless camera game, the Canon EOS M wasn't a big hit at launch -- primarily due to reports of its glacial autofocus speeds. (Something we discovered here at IR immediately.) Due to what was considered a fatal flaw, the camera was mostly ignored until recently when Canon finally addressed the AF issue with a much-anticipated firmware update. We're happy to report that this update did in fact markedly improve the EOS M's speed, shaving an average of a half a second off its single-shot autofocusing times. While it's still not as fast as many other compact system cameras, it brought the Canon EOS M back to the acceptable range -- and back to life in the minds of photographers.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-eos-m/canon-eos-mA.HTM

Magic Lantern now works on the EOS-M with the new firmware.

I have installed it. So far I have upped the bitrate in AVC mode to over 64 Mbps (regular is around 40 Mbps). I have also shot some RAW clips of about 3-4 seconds, at 37 megabytes (not bits) per second, getting 250 MB files. I have also tested the log file capability, which creates a csv file for each clip giving the real time aperture, shutter, ISO, focus distance, WB, and other parameters.

Right how to load ML (after putting the appropriate files on your sd card), you update the firmware in the camera menu. You need to do that each time you turn on the camera (for now), so the default is the standard Canon features and no ML.

My first EOS M RAW video using the new ML (2.02 firmware)

This is one sequence shot in RAW mode with the EOS M. Then, the single RAW file (one take) was split into its 800 frames as 800 sequentially numbered .DNG files. The .DNG files were read into Adobe Lightroom, where white balance was set (I chose the daylight setting). I also lowered ev by one third and then all 800 files were outputted as .Tif files. The set of 800 Tiff files (really frames) were read into Sony Vegas Pro and then rendered out as an MP4 file with a bitrate of 40Mbps at 29.970. The original frame rate was 29.970, shot at 720p in 2:35 aspect ratio (720x544) - and that is what you see. The sequence bitrate in the camera was about 35 megabytes per second and continuous shooting (I could have shot until the file size limit). The original RAW file was almost 1 Gigabyte for this 25-second sequence shot in extremely bright sun. Seems the dynamic range is much better than that in the .MOV files the camera creates as this was shot in really bright, contrast sun.

Here's a timelapse I did with ML on the EOS M. Graded and Ungraded.

EOS M RAW video in full 1280 x 720 (720p) at 24fps:

Crop mode used. 35 Mbps to shoot RAW; at this resolution and frame rate each clip can be a few minutes before the buffer runs out.

EOS M video from a visit to Washington Square Park, NYC.

The fountain, birds feeding, plastic man, flowers and bees, art, slow chess and speed chess, strollers, a guitar strummer, a squirrel eating a French fry, and the piano man, playing live (internal mics, manual audio). Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM lens.

EOS M video from a visit to NYC's new elevated park, formed from an old elevated freight rail line - The High Line.

Flora and photographers, loungers and construction workers, bugs and insects, strollers and sculptures, and artists at work. From 23rd Street to Gansevoort Street in Manhattan.

Canon EOS M with EF-S 18-135mm IS STM lens. 108030p, at 1/60th shutter in manual mo