For the past couple of years, I’ve posted articles talking about my impressions about most higher end camera. This time I’ll be doing this both as a text post and as a podcast. These notes are not exactly a summary of the podcast, but they should be close. I’m actually writing this independently of recording, not transcribing my recording.
I don’t get early hardware from any manufacturer, so this is mostly my impressions based on past experiences and published specifications.
Canon’s EOS M3 is not a new camera, at this point it’s a year and a half old, but it is new to me. These are my thoughts on my first impressions with the camera. I’ve only had one for a couple of days now, so this isn’t a detailed review. That said, my early impressions are that I really like this camera.
The question came up recently about focal lengths and crop cameras, and that reminded me of an old article I wrote talking about focal length being usually used as a proxy for angle of view. In this episode, I revisit the idea of focal length, the plurality of definitions that the word has taken on (both the optical engineering and photographic ideas), and how I think that’s comet to be.
Stepping away from a purely photographic topic, I talk in this podcast about batteries — camera and otherwise — and my two newest flashlights, a Fenix LD12 and a Black Diamond Storm 2015.
This week I’m talking about my new backpack, F-Stop Gear’s Ajna. This isn’t a review by any means, I haven’t had the bag out in the field yet, so I can’t really comment on it in that respect.
In episode 3 I talk a little bit about the confirmation in the news that the EOS 5D mark IV will have built in GPS and Wifi. The main topic of this show is how and what I look for when shopping for a camera bag.
In Episode 2 I talk a bit more about my recording setup for pod-casting, what I’ve learned so far, and some more of my thoughts on developing and understanding personal minimums for image quality.
Image: Canon USA