The Sony RX100 showed us hot to make a “real compact” camera with larger sensor. And it sounds like Canon is going to make a competitor with the same size btu with even larger APS-C sensor! CanonWatch reports that “Canon may be working on a compact camera with a large sensor. Not a successor of the PowerShot G1 X (price & specs), but a camera like the PowerShot S110 (price & specs), just a bit a larger. The camera should have a fast lens and the new APS-C 18MP sensor featured on the Rebel Sl1/EOS 100D (price & specs), and the DIGIC 6 Image Processing Unit. No viewfinder. Pricing should be less than the PowerShot G1 X when it was released. We expect Canon to announce this camera at the end of Summer 2013.“
APS-C compact of the same size of the RX100? I have to see it to believe it!
Still no rumor from the Canon EOS-M mirrorless system. But Canon is lowering the price of the camera and you can now grab it with lens(!) for $399 only at .
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Canon is so greedy, it will fckup this one too. Seems like they can’t smell the wind of change in the industry and this is a deadly dangerous for the number one company.
I totally agree with you and I’m excited to see more competition that will generate advance in compact cameras.
I think this is a great idea. But i doubt how to put a fast len and APSC in a compact body (i assume it is a zoom lens)
Sony already put a full frame sensor on a compact camera.. APS-C won’t be a big deal
so, this is just to follow Nikon A?
also, i hope they figure out the AF speed first.
Real compact + APS-C = Prime Lens + no view finder. Two cameras like this are available, and 1 of them is not trying to rip you off.
What we don’t have is a real compact 1″+ sensor with a fast zoom or view finder.
Sounds like its going for the Nikon A and Ricoh GR rather than the RX100. I wonder if it’ll be another 28mm eqv lens.
Unless its got a viewfinder it’s dead in the water already. I’d have thought they would have learnt from the sales disaster that the EOS M has been. Put a fuji style electronic viewfinder on it and it might sell otherwise accept the fact that it’s half a job again
How does Canon fight a compact camera that focuses better than it’s supposedly great venture response to the CSC market? Isn’t that just a blatant admittance of failure to make a product competitive enough?
Someone buying the RX100 would get a worse high ISO performance but a fast 1.8 lens (and sharp too) 20mp of great detail at base ISO and better 60fps HD video with a stabilised (again, fast and stabilised) CZ lens that also happens to contract into the body making the cam truly skinny jean pocket-able. This still not mentioning that it focuses SO MUCH FASTER!
Canon’s biggest mistake was thinking they can just recycle the same AF system in liveview mode from their entry level DSLRs and stick it in a mirrorless as the primary focusing method…. even at Pentax K-01 didn’t fail in this department, though it did fail in the outer case design area
potentially the cheap EOS-M may be good some day to camera modders who want a cheap and small APS-c infrared camera?
Coolpix A and Ricoh GR are both almost same size as RX100
RX100 – 101 x 59 x 36 mm
Ricoh GR – 117 x 61 x 35 mm
CoolPix A – 111 x 64 x 40 mm
Until I see it I call bullsh*t.
Like Lee said, but I’ll add that diopter adjustment is an absolute necessity.
Canon (and the rest of the industry) should to face up to three critical facts about a large number of camera buyers: 1, even the brightest, highest-resolution LCD’s are no match for bright sunshine, which is where a whole lot of pictures are taken; 2, many of us camera consumers are of an age where presbyopia is the norm and an adjustable eye-level viewfinder is a godsend; and 3, some folks just LIKE a viewfinder view, along with the ability to keep elbows close to our sides and our camera braced against our face.
The fact Olympus continues to offer an optical and not one or two, but shortly three, EVF’s tells me viewfinders continue to be popular with camera buyers and profitable for camera makers that include them in their products as either integral or extra-cost add-ons.
“APS-C compact of the same size of the RX100?”
Probably no zoom. They’re going after Nikon (as always), not Sony.
+1
I REALLY hope canon make an APSC company with 23mm and f/2.0 to compete fujifilm x100s.
Canon built a 1.5″ sensor zoom camera as small as they could (G1X) and its already significantly bigger than the Rx100 in every dimension. I doubt they can make the sensor even bigger than 1.5″, and somehow make it as small as the RX100
To be RX100 size, they will need to put a fixed focal length lens on it, which really makes it a competitor with Rico GR and Nikon Coolpix A, not RX100.