Masaya Maeda spills the beans
Canon's head of their Image Communications Products has told Reuters that Canon is working on an EVIL/Small DSLR camera.
Maeda also said the company was working on a smaller version of its upmarket single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras in a bid to compete with the new breed of mid-range so-called “mirrorless” cameras launched by Sony Corp, Olympus Corp, and Panasonic Corp.
Maeda went a few steps further.
“It's not a question of whether or not you have a mirror. There is a consumer need for good-quality cameras to be made smaller,” Maeda said. “We will meet this need.”
He did mention that a mirror may still be part of the equation. So perhaps not an EVIL but a really small digital SLR that could take EF & EF-S lenses?
“It's not a question of whether or not you have a mirror. There is a consumer need for good-quality cameras to be made smaller,” Maeda said. “We will meet this need.”He denied this would be difficult without removing the internal mirror, adding that Canon had produced very small SLR cameras in the past.
No time table was mentioned.
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