According to trusted sources at Digicaminfo Canon will soon announce a new EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM lens. This will have a 55mm filter size and be an overall very compact lens. There is still no hint about a possible new EOS-M camera. Canon seems to not feel any hurry in pushing their mirrorless M system. I think that is going to be a huge mistake. They are letting Fuji, Sony and MFT playing the main roles. The world is changing Canon….wake up!
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Samsung is also a very powerful contender. I wouldn´t be very surprised of seeing a FF mirrorless from Samsung next year.
Doesn’t surprise me about Canon being slow to get on the band wagon. Nikon is even further behind for anything serious. Both are doing very well in the traditional DSLR market so they don’t want to kill the golden goose. However, as you mentioned, “the world is changing” and that’s how new players replace old players before the old players even know it’s happened.
Canon must be confident with its 100D. That camera has all the recent technology packed in, all the lenses and the right size. I bet it sells faster than the hottest mirrorless offering.
I think the 100d is a stop gap to try to prevent too many from leaving Canon for smaller mirrorless systems. Pentax has had a similarly small model for 9 years, so a small SLR is nothing new. The difference between the 100d and previous rebel is pretty small, and the difference between a 100d and EOS-M is very large, especially when something like a 10-22mm lens is mounted on the 100d, and if rumors pan out this 11-22mm will make a much smaller package.
Nice, a compact 11-22mm is a great idea, I prefer that to a much larger lens. Having a 55mm filter is really nice for an ultra wide. On my Samsung 12-24mm f/4-5.6 with 58mm filter I can stack two thin ND filters and not get vignetting in the corrected image, without distortion correction I can only use 1 filter.