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Before<\/strong><\/p>\n After<\/strong><\/p>\n I traveled to San Diego last week with just the EOS M to really put it through its paces and see if I could make it work as a travel camera. This image is the result of an experiment to see if I could do macro photography using my Tamron 18-270 lens with adaptor on the Canon EOS M\u00a0 using a monopod. The answer was not really, at least not really well.\u00a0 The image was shot inside the Botanical House at Balboa Park which is well shaded and fairly dark.<\/p>\n The settings were: ISO 1600 1\/30th of a second at f8.0. I would have liked more depth of field for this to be a really successful shot but I couldn’t hold the monopod and big lense still enough to make that happen. I did not even try to use the small flash that came with the EOS M because I was pretty sure the long lens would block the light\u00a0 and I don’t really like the harshness of flash for botanicals anyway. I had realized going into it that one of the issues with the monopod was that I would need an L bracket to do a vertical shot…not in the spirit of lightening the load.<\/p>\n I did feel that enough of the curls on the fern were sharp in this image to go for an artistic look and I didn’t even mind some noise for that look although I did do a little noise reduction and sharpening in Photoshop. I cropped the image to get closer in on the fern, then took it into Nik Color Efex Pro and added a detail extractor, a brilliance\/warmth filter and a darken\/lighten center filter.\u00a0 I like the vibrant colors and especially the purples in the background.<\/p>\n AS for the EOS M, the jury is still out.\u00a0 The first two days in San Diego I carried around a photo bag with the Tamron telephoto lens, a super wide angle and a set of extension tubes.\u00a0 Since the monopod wouldn’t fit in that bag I needed a separate bag for that.\u00a0 It was awkward and cumbersome and made me tired and grumpy.\u00a0 I’m trying to get to a place where photography is still a fun part of my travel experience.\u00a0 The rest of the trip I just carried the camera with its 18-55mm lens and I was a much happier camper.\u00a0 I did get some great images and I relearned how to zoom with my feet. But I still want a small lightweight telephoto lens. I am also very frustrated with trying to frame an image using a screen that I cannot see clearly in bright light.<\/p>\n I truely think mirrorless cameras are the new wave in photography.\u00a0 I am hearing of many professionals going out and buying a full system from Sony or Fuji or Olympus. I think Canon is missing the boat and needs to step up to the plate with a full system of M lenses or they are going to loose their market share. I have no plans to retire my 7D but I am thinking about how to adjust my photography to fit my goal of traveling light rather than deal with the burden of a full set of creative tools in all circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before After I traveled to San Diego last week with just the EOS M to really put it through its paces and see if I could make it work as a travel camera. 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