CanonWatch reports:
have been told (thanks) that Canon Professional Services and Canon sale forces in Germany have informed various big German dealers that Canon HQs are recalling all EOS M models, but are letting all EF-M lenses in stores and branches. Dealers were told that Canon will address the EOS M in December. For the time being it looks as if it will be a development announcement rather than a last minute X-Mas surprise. If the rumor is reliable then Canon might getting serious about the EOS M system.
I’ve also been told that a CPS roadshow is scheduled for May 2015 to showcase new and important products Canon is going to announce in 2015, which possibly could be the rumoured professional cameras Canon may announce.
I also strongly believe Canon and Nikon will finally launch advanced mirrorless cameras during 2015. They cannot afford “to ignore” the mirrorless market anymore.
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Aren’t Canon and Nikon #2 and #3 in the mirrorless market? That would be the sort of ‘non-serious’ that Olympus and Panasonic and Fuji and Samsung would love to do.
Canon and Nikon put together don’t even outsell Olympus mirrorless cameras alone. So, no they are not #1 and #2 unfortunately.
Thanks, Gary. Please cite your source.
No, I think the last tally had canon at 4th and not sure where Nikon is/was – however that’s japan only and bcn rankings at that. Olympus, sony and Panasonic were the top three.
I question WHY canon or Nikon would start up a loss leader such as an enthusiast MILC line though. Overall MILC’s marketshare has grown a pittance since CIPA has started tracking it – less than 10% in three years and that’s with canon and Nikon being added and sony basically switching gears from DSLR to MILC.
Canon will announce an A7-competitor in 2015. Nikon will not. I predict that Canikon will become Casony in the future (the switch to mirrorless is as inevitable as the switch from hard disk drives to solid state drives, or from CRT displays to LCD displays).
M43 and the various APS-C mirrorless systems will die the same fate as 43, DX, EF-S, Pentax, etc…
I also think that the future is mainly in sony’s hands, but canon can still play a leading role if they move fast AND they guarantee a full compatibility with the existing lenses.
Aps-c is in the middle among ff and m4/3. If ff gets price lowered enough (like a7-ii) and m4/3 improve sensors, than aps-c will likely fade, not having a huge size advantage vs ff and not having a huge iq advantage over m4/3.
although FF mirror less with a smaller and lighter body is now a reality with the A7/r/s – there are still physics –
and that is lens sizes – yes there are manageable Prime FF lenses – but when it comes to zoom then there are issues – compare a M43 70-200mm F2.8 to a FF 70-200mm F2.8 – or just even the slower F4.0 70-200mm FE from Sony – it looks huge on that small body – and although they are trying to keep it light it is still heavy and the grip is quite not good enough – I am all for FF – but realistically I do not expect to see M43 or APS-C disappear soon – also look at the Sony RX100m3 with 1 inch sensor vs the Panasonic LX100 with M43 sensor – Panasonic had to do some cropping to make it work and still a lot larger body –
The key is to improve the smaller sensors for low light and figure out a way to increase shallow DOF –
I so doubt this. M43 and APS-C will always have a kit size advantage over full frame.
what’s the point of getting the short end of the stick ergonomically and for other reasons and go FF MILC and nearly having the same kit weight? if the trend is to get smaller and lighter, then FF mirrorless isn’t going to cut it any more than canon or Nikon releasing small lightweight DSLR’s – which they are both able to, if it makes sense.
Full frame in general is such a small niche – maybe around 1/5th of the entire market or less. a good indicator is just how many lenses are shipped – full frame lenses only account for around 1/3 of the market – and that’s considering you just can’t get none full frame lenses in a lot of cases.
m43 and APS-C is more than good enough for the majority of users, casual users aren’t switching up to full frame.
Nikon is struggling financially – but of course Canon is the big gorilla and they are making good money in their various other divisions – Nikon does have real winners in the D810 and the D750 but there are so many die hard Canon fans out there that even though the D810 beats the 5DM3 in so many ways they will not change – and of course many have so much invested in Canon glass – Of course the MirrorLess market has to be stealing away from the DSLR market which will hurt both – but Nikon more so –
Sony is really forcing the issue with FF mirror-less cameras and releasing quite a few new bodies – the A7,A7R,A7s and now A7II and certainly an update to the A7R later 2015 – What is slowing them down is a total lack of lenses for their FE mount – very few Sony branded affordable lenses – I think they will release more Sony branded lenses once they see Canon enter the market – for now Sony is milking customers with reasonable priced bodies but rape them with Zeiss branded lenses which have not all been all that impressive and certainly not for the price – Sony is now offering big discounts on all their A7 models which leads me to believe that there has been a slow down in sales – so to improve that they need to come out with Sony branded lenses for reasonable prices not $1000 for a F2.8 so so Zeiss branded lens etc. – while Canon and Nikon offer a F1.8 lens for much less –
Canon did well in competing with the Sony RX100m3 with their G7X – although it has no EVF and not as good video – but offer faster lens and longer focal range and what is so important in a point and shoot Touch LCD and Touch To Focus/Shoot –
For some odd reason Sony is very slow to listen – for years folks complained about the NEX menu system – and now for a longer time asking for Touch LCD – but No No No – which is rather odd as mostly all cell phone users are so used to Touch that they get frustrated when they see their camera with no touch –
Canon did very poorly in entering the mirror less market – I suspect there will be an improvement