Mirrorless Camera

Good evening. I am considering the purchase of a mirrorless camera as a secondary camera due to lighter and slightly smaller. While I like the SONY models I would like to stick with Cannon so that I may use my Cannon lenses.

Does anyone have a Cannon mirrorless camera and if so what are your thoughts on it? Any suggestion, comments, etc. will be greatly appreciated even if you don’t have one.

Thank you,

Rich Hahn

Rich:

At this point, the Canon offering in the mirrorless market is the EOS-M.  There are a few different models.  All natively use the EOS-M mount.  There are not very many lenses in the EOS-M mount.  Canon sells an adaptor to use EF or EF-S lenses.  Personally, I wouldn't bother.  Canon's offering is woefully behind the competition.  I see the mirrorless market currently as Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, Fuji.  All of those companies are way ahead of Canon and Nikon in the mirrorless market.  Rumorville says that Canon is working on getting a product out in 2018, as is Nikon.  I'll believe it when i see it.  

If you were to go with Sony, there are adaptors to use Canon EF lenses on the Sony bodies.  Haven't used them so can't speak to the issues if there  are any.

Since you mentioned size as a motivator, you are not going to save much size / weight by going the Sony route with adaptors to use Canon lenses.  

Much depends on your photographic desires which mirrorless system might best fit your needs.
 

My main camera is the Canon 5DM4 with a variety of L lenses.  I also have a mirrorless Fuji XT-2 with Fuji's high end lenses 16-55 f/2.8 and 50-140 f/2.8 (not much weight savings but high quality build and image quality).  I like both camera systems and never considered Sony.  The camera body of the mirrorless is much lighter but not the lenses in general.  As Keith mentioned, much depends on your photographic desires. 

I have the Canon M5 with both the 18-150 lens and the 50-200mm lens, also the adapter.  I have used it sparingly, until just recently when I started using it with the adapter and other lenses the 70-300 and the 55-250, with OK results.  I am considering it as my backup body when I got on my African trip next month.  But, will be doing more tests with it before deciding.  My biggest problem is the size of the body, when holding the camera using the view finder i keep hitting the menu button, also until I found out how to stop it, as I used the viewfinder my nose would touch the LCD screen and cause the focus square to move around!  I have attached a photo I took with the M5 and the 18-150 lens.  This was shot though glass at the red wolf exhibit.  Hope this is helpful.

Rich - I purchased the Sony A7 ii for Nicole for our Iceland Trip.  Great little camera - love the smaller size and ease of use.  It's annoying that it eats batteries so quickly - but I can deal with that.  It's also really nice on a tripod.  I can bring it in one day if you want to check it out and will try and send you some photos we took with it 

Like others, I have a big camera, and a mirrorless, too. I have 2 Canon mkii bodies that I use when I am on a serious photo mission, and feel like having the size and weight of them, since I always have a 100-400 L lens on one of the bodies.
I got a Sony Nex 3 many years ago, when they first came out. As was noted above, the body itself is small, but I added a big zoom (Sony) lens, and I like that lens so much, that is what I have kept on there ever since. Then a couple years ago, I got the Fuji XT1, and now that is my preferred "small" camera. I really like the weatherproofness of the Fuju, and the quality, both of the images, and of the body itself. I hear the XT2 is even better.
Interestingly, I do not usually take the Fuji at the same time that I take my big cameras. I grab the Fuji when I am in a hurry, and also when I am not really sure if I will even get to take any photos. I have the 55-200 lens, so it is bigger, but still, it is pretty easy to put it in a small neoprene bag and take it along. It is especially good for traveling.
If you want this camera as a pure backup, then yes, you will need to get adaptors, and I tend to agree with whoever said above that Sony, Fuji, etc are way ahead of Canon. You would need adaptors for the Canon version anyway, wouldn't you?
I could use mine as a backup, but in reality, I use it in a whole different way. As I said, I grab it to take with me in the vehicle all the time. I take it along for hiking, or when I am out with my husband, and I know I will not have time to mess around with the big cameras (my husband has a pretty short attention span with taking pictures; if we out hiking, he wants to GO). But it is good to know that I have that additional camera if needed.
I have noticed one thing since I got the mirrorless cameras: overall, I take more photos, probably because I have a good camera with me more of the time. I guess that is a good thing, because you are more likely to get those rare photos. It sure adds to the GBs if images to take care of, though!
Overall, I am really glad I got the mirrorless cameras. The Sony Nex was a learning curve, and not the best, because at that time Sony had all the functions hidden in menus. That was really, really frustrating, and is one reason why I like how the Fuji is set up, with so many knobs. But the Sony now makes a great video camera!!
Yes, it depends on what you want and what you plan to do with it. Hope this helped.

Thank you everyone for your advise. Decisions need to be made.