Image of the Canon mirrorless patent found by Egami
Amateur Photographer just posted the text of an interview made with Rainer Fuehres from Canon: “The idea of the compact system camera is nothing to do with whether the camera has a mirror or not, but about creating a small and more portable system. If Canon does take part I hope we won’t introduce just a me-too product, but we’ll use the opportunity to do something different.”… “For Canon it would be about connectivity and providing high image quality in a small form. The manufacturers that have introduced micro Four Thirds and mirrorless systems have been those that have failed to make a success of their mainstream digital SLR offerings“.
But via Photorumors we found a Canon patent that discloses a possible future Canon mirrorless camera (Click here to see the patent at Egami). So Canon, what are you trying to hide?
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It’s worth having a look at that patent document. I found that in one of the tables Google Translate had turned the Japanese for mirrorless into Les Miller. Rather than using silly terminology such as EVIL, or compact system cameras, we should be all calling our cameras Les Miller.
*lol*
Thanks – you made my day.
Didn’t you mean “hide their mirrorless PLANS”?
“The manufacturers that have introduced micro Four Thirds and mirrorless systems have been those that have failed to make a success of their mainstream digital SLR offerings.”
The manufacturers that say they’ll create something different are those that have failed to recognize the importance of mirrorless systems and are thus late to the market.
Precisely.
Are we any closer to learning a release date for the Canon mirrorless model?
Canon’s European people are probably not privy to what is under development by their Japanese R&D.
Only once it is pretty much ready would Canon Japan unveil it to the regional sales teams.
This is my assessment based on having worked with other Japanese consumer electronics companies.