The first rumor of the new week is about Canon. Those may be the specs of an upcoming new EOS-M model:
- 24mp APS-C Sensor
- New generation AF system
- DIGIC V
- Removable Electronic Viewfinder (Very high resolution)
- Optional grip attachment
- 5fps
- Slightly larger than the current EOS M
- Introduced with 3 more lenses
- $999 USD
I think it’s more a wishlist than a real camera 🙂 But if true than Canon really aims to play in the same league of the Sony NEX-6 and NEX-7 and the Fuji X-E1.
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ridiculous camera and price
You’re reporting a rumor rated CR1 on Canon Rumrors…Come on, even the high rated rumors on that site are usually wrong.
“Integrated” and “Removable” are not the same.
Ridiculous camera, ridiculous pricing and possibly a, very apt, ridiculous rumor. 🙂
oh god why Canon is so SLOW to enter the MFT market and put such an average product on sale that is already dead…If they want to protect their dslr market share,they should’nt make this marketing mistake and keep to the dslr market !!
Canon pulls no punches. It might even get interesting. If the rumor is true.
If it is the old Digic V, it cannot be “New generation AF system”.
My point is that the EOS-M system is just as much valuable the rumor is. 🙂
The EOS M isnt selling in the UK, it’s a half hearted attempt at entering this market, which should have been left alone until something decent and complete was ready, this fell short. They shouldn’t bother trying to upgrade now, as it really emphasises just how poor the base model was on release. They have played right into the hands of Fuji and Sony with this camera, and let themselves down. They should bin it and wait until something worth putting L lenses on is completely ready.
This is the camera they should have opened with, but they were so consumed with protecting their DSLR business.
A 24MP sensor, plus a high degree modularity would make the price-point more palatable.
And if Canon would bring out a home-grown version of Speedbooster that provides full-frame emulation, I would buy into such a system.
Pointless…make something competitive or not at all!
Absolutely correct .
Yeah, but the point is, do they want?
Canon has been playing with themselves for a while now. Because of the EOS-C, they haven’t done any significant improvement in video for their DSLR, despite the fact that they are not direct competitors. Canon was questioning why the EOS-M didn’t sell as well as they thought, when didn’t bring anything new to the table, besides the lack of lenses, controls, slow-AF, etc. And so on and so on. It seems like they are doing their stuff and not really caring about what consumers may want or not, which I find a disrespectful, even more when amateur videographers being the ones that helped them get such popularity in video.
In addition to the weaknesses of EOS-M already mentioned, there is something else that baffles me:
Why hasn’t Canon published an official EOS-M lens roadmap ?
Without knowing which lenses are coming, why would any serious photographer buy into this system.
Surely, Canon must be hard working on new lenses, so why not just tell the world about it.