personally i find the very small cameras with EVF too awkward, and what you lose by taking up room inside of the camera for EVF, you have to take away something somewhere else.
Also, I'm a little confused - there are somewhere around a billion people or more that take photos - without an EVF. They seem to be doing just fine.
there is a hotshoe, and it's the intelligent one - not sure if Canon could release an EVF for it, but given the fact that this camera has canon's multi-function hot shoe connector, it's hard to suggest that one isn't technically possible - i really doubt Canon created a new hotshoe interface without video.
as far as the comparison between this and the S9 - you do realize the size difference we're talking about here, yes?
...there are manifold reasons that Canon's M format failed in the marketplace (defining failure as no longer being manufactured).
I wonder if an
underrated reason for the M's failure is that both the M and M2, despite the presence of a hotshoe, had no provision for the viewfinder (EVF-DC1) that functions reasonably well on the M3 as well as more recent Ms designed to work with an EVF. The EVF-DC1 was sold as part of a kit with the M3.
Some photographers IMMEDIATELY dismiss any camera without a viewfinder.
It's the damnedest thing--a bit more than a decade ago now, my two daughters visited a number of European countries. I was sort of surprised when my attempt to sell them on the idea of taking a couple of Canon Ms with them was successful!
I think part of the reason that my pitch succeeded...was that the M had
no viewfinder! They were more comfortable taking shots that way...for a variety of reasons--including one along the lines of 'only real photographers look into their camera to take pictures and we're not real photographers...and don't want to be'.
In the meantime, they both happily acquired image after image, with the M and its trusty 22mm lens attached (no viewfinder).
My oh my the quality of the images...
But my own small-and-light travel kit, today, includes the M6MkII as well as the EVF-DC2 viewfinder (used as needed).
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