Canon EOS M10 review: A pro-looking camera without the hassle

[Furqan Sarwar]

• 18 Mega Pixel Camera
• Auto Focus
• No knobs, buttons, sliders and meters, just like a Smart Phone.
• Wi-Fi
• Share images instantly on social media of your own choice.
  
• Can also shoot video in full HD.
• The camera has a multitude of effects and styles to choose from.

The Canon EOS M10 is a mirrorless compact camera for those who want digital-single-lens-reflex (DSLR) quality – the big pro-looking cameras – but without the hassle.

When I say hassle I mean the seemingly endless settings and lenses that the DSLR demands. And when I say mirrorless, I mean it doesn’t require the size of a DSLR camera to hold the mirror and prism that captures the image you view in a DSLR.

This camera is remarkably devoid of knobs, buttons, sliders and meters; it almost seems to have taken its design concepts from the many smartphones that have stolen the market from camera makers – if you can’t beat them, join them – but this device of course doesn’t have Facebook or a phone.

However, it does have Wi-Fi, which enables you to share images instantly on Instagram or your own choice of social media.

What Canon has done is take away the manual focus, a prerequisite on most point-and-shoot cameras and used the viewing screen as a focal point – you just touch where you want to focus and the camera does the rest. There isn’t even an optical viewfinder – it’s a true point and shoot (P&S) camera.

Camera makers have had to go, at least, one better than smartphones with their P&S products – the mirrorless offering definitely delivers better images and its size and weight make it eminently portable. There is also a multitude of effects and styles one can choose from in the menu, which is surprisingly easy to navigate.

The lens (that comes as standard) can be switched with another five lenses designed for the camera. But you need to buy them separately should you wish to move towards the DSLR brigade.

The good news is that because of the camera’s size and weight, carrying another lens doesn’t have to be a back-breaking exercise.

The camera needn’t break the bank either, retailing across the UAE for Dh1,999 / Rs:57000/- Approx

 

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Soon I'll be getting my First DSLR, I am going for Canon Rebel Series though it has been given as a gift to me, Can't wait to get my hands on to it. I wanna do landscape photography and wedding photography. My Dream DSLR would be Canon mark 5dsr it has 50 Megapixels, though more megapixels certainly does not mean a better camera but it is great.