You can't shoot in manual on the M3? Is that right? That seems so strange since you can shoot in manual on the M1. In any case, I'm sticking with the M1 unless ML is somehow made to work on the M3. Very unlikely. The EOS-M is a really nice little camera with ML. I would love better video quality and I've heard that the M3 is slightly better, but ML is the key to making it useable for video in my opinion.