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Yesterday Canon has announced a new mirrorless interchangeable lens camera: the M5. Canon so far hasn't show so far much determination in entering the mirrorless market, for obvious reasons giving its extremely wide consumer base especially for non-mirrorless lenses and its models have less features and performances with respect to other manufacturers, especially Sony, Panasonic, Olympus and Fuji.

The new M5 appears the first "serious" model (i.e. at least comparable to other manufacturers' models), let's see in detail the feature, also looking at some direct concurrent models of Sony (the new A6300) and the Panasonic and Olympus micro four thirds:

What's missing: no GPS, no zebra (visual aids for overexposed areas that practically nowadays all cameras have except Canon ones), no headphone jack (a bad miss also for other mirrorless like A6300 and Olympus E-M5 II, while Panasonic GH4 has one).

An official presentation of the camera from Canon USA is available here

The problem with Canon M line is the availability of native lenses for this format: there are 6 lenses plus a new 18-150 mm model, but none are f4 of wider zoom, just one tele... Of course being a Canon system, you can just buy an adapter (around 100 €/$) and attach any EF or EF-S lens from the huge catalog of Canon but certainly you are loosing the compactness of the mirrorless world. It's anyway very positive that Canon has finally understood that they need to put latest technology in mirrorless that is a trend for the future.

Availability will be from end of November with an initial price of around 1000-1100 €/$, not very cheap, but in 6 months I expect to see it around 800 €/$.