You would need the adapter to use decent lenses on this camera because most of the ones offered will not yield images that are better than a smartphone

The combination of size, weight, 24MP and these lenses with dual pixel focus is unbeatable today

Add slow lenses and terrible AF and our little friend here becomes a daylight-only shooter

Yet when you throw on the EOS M lens adapter and you have the ability to use some of the best lenses in the world

I am likely going to be carrying the M5 for many family and social events because of its light weight, good lenses and good response.

But with dismal low-light auto focus, slow native lenses, poor ISO performance, and a lack of third party glass choices, you should pick a one of its incredible competitors and leave the M5 on the shelf

I still carry 5dmk3 with me sometimes but its main purpose now is for fast prime lenses like 135L. I use slow zooms on M5 and fast primes on full frame

With the right lenses it can easily keep up with the lower end D and all the Ti range.

The only disappointing this is that Canon doesn't have fast lenses for this M mount

In dimmer light and lower contrast situation, the AF struggles a little bit with slow zoom lenses

I noticed that the EF-M lenses, especially the 22mm, 28mm macro and 11-22 zoom are really good in all respects, and the other zooms, 15-45, 18-150 (both kit zooms) and the 55-200 are also pretty sharp and contrasty

Rival Sony’s or Panasonic’s offer much more in that way, except from personal experience their video autofocus is awful comparatively speaking