12Mar Canon EOS-M in-depth film kit overview video
As promised here is the in-depth EOS-M film kit overview with a close look at pretty much everything in my kit. I’m working on a full review of the EOS-M and hope to have it up before I get flooded by NAB content.
Although I have a number of Canon FD lenses, Crini mentioned the Olympus OM primes as an even more affordable alternitive. Most of the good Olympus OM primes are under $50 a piece
and the OM to EOS-M adapter is only $14. For those prices I might have to pick a few up and test them out. They could also be an option for the Panasonic GH4k I have on pre-order, though i’m not sure how well these older lenses would resolve a 4k image.
You can check out my full EOS-M kit list in this earlier post. Over all i’m still pretty happy with the EOS-M for the price.
March 13th, 2014 at 7:11 am
I am having issues getting Magic Lantern to run properly on my EOS-M…what is your process for installing and insuring ML works everytime?
March 13th, 2014 at 9:32 am
I get my ML install here. I use a card that already has magic lantern unified installed on it and copy the EOS-M files on to it. Only problem I’ve had is that the audio level meters don’t start working until you hit record, otherwise it’s been pretty stable for me.
March 15th, 2014 at 5:28 pm
I own this camera and it’s great for video, but when I listen back to the audio it’s very faint, how do you listen to the playback? I couldn’t find anything in the menu.
March 15th, 2014 at 5:38 pm
If you are using a field monitor you can listen via the headphone jack. You can only turn up the on camera speaker so far (in playback mode) and it’s not a very good option for playback.
March 15th, 2014 at 6:03 pm
Ok, I have a field monitor, but is there where do you turn up the audio for playback, or is there not one?
March 15th, 2014 at 8:30 pm
wha?
March 19th, 2014 at 11:58 am
I could listen to the playback with the external monitor, but I was not able to hear it being recorded, is this how it is or an I missing something. I was hoping to monitor live and on playback.
March 19th, 2014 at 4:10 pm
That’s correct. You can listen to playback but not recording.
March 16th, 2014 at 9:34 am
Did the update only improve the AF in video mode?
I thought the update fixed all AF hunting issues…
March 16th, 2014 at 10:52 am
The update added the option to turn off AF in video mode so that you don’t get hunting issues. It alls speeds up auto focus in picture mode by a small margin.
March 30th, 2014 at 8:16 am
Hi
i purchased the fotasy adapter that you linked in your article, and one Olympus zuiko 200 mm f4 lens on ebay, but when i push the record button on the eos m, nothing happens, i can’t record video, do you know what could be problem?
Best regards
March 30th, 2014 at 9:04 am
Are you sure you have the lens adapter on all the way?
April 3rd, 2014 at 11:52 am
Yes, it’s all the way, and I am unable to record, I also have a fotodiox pro ef-eosm that works great, maybe I just received a defective fotasy adapter, I will return it,
best regards
April 3rd, 2014 at 12:22 pm
O never mind, I found out I have to enable on the camera menu “shoot without lens.”, now it works and I am able to record, Best regards
April 3rd, 2014 at 12:27 pm
Sorry probably should have mentioned that bit.
August 15th, 2015 at 7:45 pm
Great camera I’ve used a lot for both stills and video. Different lenses you can use and adapt to it. The manual features for the video aspect as well as audio input makes it easy to run in better audio from a shotgun mic. Here’s a sample we used for a video using a canon 50mm 1.8f https://youtu.be/M1NgmEcodUo