It’s hard to write an article about a google translated Japanese interview 🙂 But if I got it right DC.watch reports that Canon is investigating the possibility to launch a new kind of system camera with new mount. I guess they are talking about a mirrorless Full Frame mount. Canon says they recognize the value of having a compact system camera.
Translated form Japanese culture to Western culture: They are finally recgnizing that they did a mistake not taking mirrorless seriously 🙂
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A mirrorless camera with small rangefinder body and 6d sensor would be my dream, if priced right.
Aren’t you describing the Sony A7 series? Except, the A7R has a much better sensor than the 6D.
A7 is not rangefinder. A6000 is!
I seriously doubt they could succeed with a rangefinder camera. Sure, Leica can get away with it, but then they are Leica.
Any camera from Canon would have to feature autofocus, not rangefinder.
> 6d sensor would be my dream, if priced right
not sure if this crap worth more than $300 😉
Lets hope they put ore effort it to it than the eos m system.
Can’t beat them join them! How about join the micro 43 alliance that would be kick ass. We don’t need another apcs mount maybe a full frame but I’m not sure what’s the size advantage there looking at Sony’s lenses.
Could as well mean Canon trails Pentax to the medium format market.
Or mean Canon trails Pentax to 1/1,7″ morrorless system camera market.
Or trails Sony and make a EOS-FM system
Who knows what they will reinvent?
FF Mirrorless Camera with Current Full Frame-Mount. If the Build a Mirrorless “Fuji x-t1 Style” i will swap all my nikon gear to Canon
EF-M can accomodate FF sensor already…
I’m a avid Canon Shooter for 20 plus years. I own almost every single lens they’ve come out with. I have to tell you that Canon has missed the boat of Micro 4/3, since they considered it to be a fad or a joke to get involved. I have added to my Camera collection, the Olympus OM-D EM-1. I have to say that the quality, and performance of the M.4/3 camera and lens they have is my go to camera now for most everything. The color fidelity and sharpness is unparalleled to anything I own. If canon thinks they have a chance to play catchup in the M.4/3’s area.
I really love my Canon, but my lighter more options OM-D.
Canon is considering to make a new mount for smaller sensors than APS-C…and maybe join to m4/3 (is a one of the possibilities).
Really they will be playing catch up to the rest of the little guys. I really think they are window of opportunity was missed, plus there failed EOS-M and now the M2 has made them a little leery to even try again.
the modern camera world is nothing like the same business it was 30 yrs ago. its tech like any other tech and canikon will be pushed out by the big tech companies eventually.
when will apple join the party 😉
Apple crashed the party a few years ago, remember the iPhone, the most widely used camera in the world?
Lol oh yeah!
Seriously though I always thought they would bring out a CSC of some description.
Why FF? People want smaller cameras! In order to get a smaller camera system, one need to shrink the sensor.
If going Mirrorless only for the sake of an EVF, Canon could keep the mount and need to adapt the AF system for CDAF (or use on sensor PDAF like Samsung NX1).
Even more simpler, Canon could just join m4/3 and would be in the boat quickly.
A semipro body + few fast 1.2 lenses + Canons video expertise, that would contribute to the m4/3 system. But it depends on Canons greed 🙂
Canon could do a lot of things, but they usually don’t.
Sounds like they are talking m4/3 or something similar.http://photorumors.com/2014/09/20/canon-is-considering-a-new-mount-system/#more-62364
so they are killing off the EOS M mount now I believe. much like what Sony is doing with the NEX system.
First Nex never was a system E-mount is.
Second Sony is developping many new lenses for the E-mount right now. They showed that there will be 20 FF lenses at the end of 2015. All these leses will work perfectly on any E-mount camera, Full Frame or APS.
Sony came this year with two new APS cameras (A6000 and A5100) and one new FF E-mount camera (the A7s). Then there where tons of APS E-mount cameras on the Sony booth at Photokina, you could try them all. This all shows that Sony is very dedicated to the E-mount system.
So it is time to stop the doom and gloom Sony is getting everytime they come with a new camera or lens.
(do you remember the launch of the A3000? All “rangefinder”styled cameras would dissapear, but it did not happen, When the A7 came out, Sony would only make “humped”cameras in the future, that did not come out. And People now are telling the A-mount is dead, the APS E-mount cameras are dead. All based on just stupid rumors.)
Wrong, my APS-C Sony NEX-3n, full frame Sony NEX-VG900 and Sony full frame A7r all have the exact same E mount and I use E mount lenses like my FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS on all three .