instaed of fighting about mos and cmos and aps-c crap, grab a nikin fe-50/1.8 or a similar canon film camera and go out and shoot film. Great colours, dr, vf and so on.

It is the hope beyond hope, that Canon listens to more than just their 10 STAR paid contributors for feedback. Canon is too much the Wizard behind the curtain and less as Bill Gates wrote in “Business at the Speed of Thought,” easy to communicate with market leader. Heck, Microsoft never learned the Bill Gates Lesson.

I have a G-9 and it is slowish but has great lens quality and PORTABILITY. The G-10 is wider yes, but I want the old film LEICA SHOOTING SPEED and PERFORMANCE. So APS-C should fit the bill with the EF-S mount. A small zoom similar in size to the Pentax Normal SMCP-DA 40mm f/2.8 would enhance the portability

It’s about the new G camera and not about digital rangefinder or small interchangeable lenses camera. Nothing about new lenses system or super compact camera.

The G10 is already a great camera, if Canon can make the next G camera with APS-C sensor it would improve a lot!!!!!!! Is it not enough?

@ David, yeah it’s not a fair comparison since the SX10 also has an EVF while the G10 only has an optical one and also a much larger lens (extends more during each start up, i.e consumes more juice). The cipa standard also dictates a 50% flash usage. I don’t know the rating on the respective flash units but I don’t think they’re identical.

Make it EF-S, I’d stick a 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM (28-135mm) for standard zoom, round it out with a 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM (16-35mm) and 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS (88-400mm) and it’s nice little fun pack. Add a few new EF-S primes with a pancake and it’s quite a little system. And I could let my daughters use them on my 50D too.

http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?CanonCanonetGIIIQL17.html~mainFrame

Also, since the Canonet was designed for 35 mm film, a digital rangefinder built around an APS-sized sensor could be smaller.

I hope the E-P1 is tremendously successful and defines a market. The success of the E-P1 would support Canon entering the market with its own digital rangefinder.

If you want to buy lenses from 4 and now maybe 5 different manufacturers, have at it! Own them all if you can. Pick the E-P1 over a 5D2, why not? HAHAHAHA whatever clicks your shutterbug.

Olympus has some innovative lenses. Some. The list of what they don’t make is much longer. You’re also stuck with 2X crop factor, no FF, and for those the great lenses, only average bodies at best.

BTW…great lenses are only as good as your sensor, and frankly the micro43 images are just ok – I’m not impressed.

I also don’t know why you put the 50D IQ so high up on a pedestal. It’s perfectly good, but Oly’s new 12mp 4/3′s sensor more than holds its own against it. And both are in a different league the then G10. The only reason the G10 is even mentioned in the same breath as the E-P1 is because it’s close to the same size. Besides, we’re talking about glass, not image sensors. It’s a fact that Oly has been the most innovative lens maker the last 5 years (but of course they had to be since they created a new format from scratch).

If you want to put a lens as large as the Canon 17-85mm onto a camera body as small as the E-P1 then you’re more than welcome, but to me it makes absolutely no sense to put large lenses on a tiny camera body. New lenses actually designed for this kind of camera are needed. Not something shoehorned and retrofitted.

Canon could pull a “Pen” and point to the “Canonet” like the GIII QL 17 (the old “Poor Man’s Leica”), 35mm rangefinder with a 40mm 1.7 lens.

…WHICH BTW, was 120 x 75 x 60 mm in size – the Rebel XTi is 126.5 x 94.2 x 65mm with its bulging top prism and hand grip, so we’re not that far off already.