

The standard battery is able to keep up surprisingly well but conks out after around 45 minutes. The EOS-M uses a ton more power-and storage space-after supercharging its capabilities with Magic Lantern. Having said that, the much more affordable 15-45 lens above still works great-though I’d recommend shooting with a tripod to combat its lack of image stabilization. Given that it’s made for much bigger cameras (with a different lens mount), I had to buy an adapter for the 18-135 to work properly once installed, it opens up the ability to use the plethora of Canon EF-mount lenses on the market. I personally have Canon’s 18-135 installed, which gives me image stabilization and quite a lot of zoom.

Thankfully, I had some existing lenses from shooting with my Canon DSLR, but there are plenty of native lenses for the EOS-M that work great. 5K also allows you to crop your footage quite a lot without losing definition. The 5 in 5K simply references a horizontal resolution of around 5,000 pixels more dots create sharper, clearer, more life-like footage. It feels like everyone talks about these higher resolutions, but nobody mentions what makes them inherently better than 1080p. That deal was well and good, but the EOS-M only shoots 1080p video natively. I picked mine up used for just $239 on mpb.com-a website for buying, selling, and trading used camera gear. With such a small budget, I gravitated toward Canon’s EOS-M platform.
