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neonlight · Apr 3, 2026

AcaPixus said:
Well, with that barrel diameter on the AI generated camera+lens image there should be no problem for Canon, as the barrel seems rather to small to fit the RF mount ....!!
I am not a super fan of AI generated images for that sort of things.

Edit: On second inspection it may not even be AI generated, but just a composite where lens and camera are not to scale??

Are you talking about the big green thing in post #50?
A real lens, used to be the most expensive (apart from Canon's 1200 f/5.6 that is a rarity) but Canon's RF800/1200 make it look cheap.

Dragon · Apr 3, 2026

AlanF said:
Extrapolating a 40Mpx sensor to FF gives 102Mpx. The current 32.5Mpx extrapolates to 83Mpx which is already higher than the Sony 60Mpx sensor. In fact, the ancient EOS 90D and the M equivalent had 32.5Mpx APS-C years ago.

My 90D is classic, not ancient!

Nathalietje86 · Apr 3, 2026

Still hope they will give the new compact camera's also raw instead of only jpeg

TexPhoto · Apr 3, 2026

Some circular examples.

Zudo · Apr 3, 2026

Pop-arazzi said:
Like a lot of others, I'm lamenting the lack of a quality, affordable compact superzoom. My main camera is a 70D. But my SX720 was always in my pocket/beach bag/bike pack. Unfortunately it died last summer. Went looking for a replacement and guess what? No one was making an affordable compact.superzoom any more.

My night time/ indoor walk around camera is my G16. I know there is a relationship between sensor size and zoom capabilities and I don't know what the formula is, but the 1/1.7 senor in my G16 produces noticably better better pics than 1/2.3 sensor in sx720. Is the 1.7 too big to accommodate a long zoom? Maybe not 40x, but a 20x zoom with that sensor.would be a great compromise between size,. affordability and zoom.

I think the G16 offers a great starting point to build on for an affordable compact superzoom. Especially if they can keep the lens as fast as it is on the G16.
Very good IQ for a compact camera, hot shoe and a (somewhat inaccurate) OVF.
Thoughts?

I also want a high end super zoom that can be wide angle, do well in low light, etc. The specs rumored below to me would be good, although it would be better if the zoom was more than 20X

A new 750 would be great as I would assume it would have a 40X zoom! I would pay the money based on how well they can enable it to do wide angle, low light, yet still have a massive zoom.

Rumored Canon V3 Specifications:

Sensor: 1.4-inch 22.4-megapixel CMOS sensor (likely the same as the V1/R7).
Lens: 20x optical zoom (approx. 24-480mm or 24-500mm 35mm equivalent).
Viewfinder: Built-in electronic viewfinder (EVF) expected for a better shooting experience.
Design & Handling: Deeper hand grip and more robust body, prioritizing a compact stills camera over a dedicated vlogging tool.
Performance: Likely to feature 8-stop image stabilization.
Video: Potential for 4K capabilities, but likely without active cooling.
Release Date: Targeted for the fourth quarter of 2025.
YouTube +5

The V3 is rumored to act as a modern, compact successor to cameras like the Canon G3X or SX740HS, designed to appeal to photographers needing portability and high-powered zoom.

YouTube +1

Zudo · Apr 3, 2026

Dragon said:
"Super Zoom" is a broad term. It could be a 740hs replacement or a G3x replacement. Personally, I would prefer the latter. I have a P1000, and it is an interesting and useful camera (after you figure out its idiosyncrasies), but it is HUGE and in no way could be called a "compact" camera. A G3x zoom range with the V1 sensor and aggressive electronic lens correction could be close to the same size as the G3x and that would be pretty cool.

What I want is a high quality camera that has both wide angle but also with a zoom more like the 740, with a 40X to be a high end travel camera. If they did a Powershot V3 then it needs minimum of 20x but ideally a bit more zoom. I would pay more if it had wide angle, high image quality and with big zoom; $1200 to $2000. If it was on that higher end price it would be more like a combo of the 750 & V3.

neuroanatomist · Apr 3, 2026

mimbu said:
Oh look, it's the #1 member of the Cult of Canon! He's continuing to drink the Flavor Aid, I'm so surprised. /s

Oh look, when one of your typically inane replies is challenged you have no ability to formulate a substantive response so you petulantly resort to an ad hominem response. Thoroughly puerile, and no one is surprised.

scyrene · Apr 3, 2026

I'm not against third party lenses but I wouldn't commit any more than a minimal budget towards an unproven brand which is starting out with autofocus. Optics are all very well but I feel like AF is harder to succeed with.

scyrene · Apr 3, 2026

neuroanatomist said:
I don't have a camera that hasn't been launched yet. R1 with the RF 85/1.2L DS.

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(The greenish cast is from a green/shamrock runner that's on the console in front of her, St. Patrick's Day decor.)

An appropriate facial expression for the stale (wilful?) misapprehensions in this thread.

P-visie · Apr 3, 2026

SereneSpeed said:
I’m worried about the buffer in the (rumored) R7ii. I’d like a very substantial buffer, but aren’t buffers going to be limited by the supply of CFexpress cards. Indirect logic, I know… but will Canon still raise the price of the R7ii/resist lowering the price (by installing less buffer/DRAM) if the market as a whole can’t use it?

Maybe it makes no difference, because Canon can still sell the camera based on the specs?

I feel like this is a camera that will pull people up market from cameras without CFe slots. But dang, if you don’t own CFe cards by now…

Anyway, just something I’m concerned about - In the fantasy land where the camera I actually want may be a reality

For a buffer the camera needs memory chips (in scarce supply, with rising prices). A CF Express cards with high sustained writing speeds helps the camera clearing the buffer, i.e. writing the raw (or jpeg) files from the buffer to the card.
Canon has indicated that rising prices of memory chips may result in higher camera prices.
Prices of CF Express cards have gone up (see this thread).

Daniel Wu · Apr 3, 2026

David - Sydney said:
Brand identification/ marketing would be hard if phoenix legal structures were used.
It is possible that these lens would only be available within China where it would be harder for Canon to enforce any copyright/patent infringements.

Entirely likely that they use EF autofocus with RF physical mount.
The lenses don't have to have the fastest or quietest AF motors and still be competitive vs native lenses.
AF Meike lenses are relatively inexpensive eg 35-85mm f1.4-f2 models range from USD135-USD400 on B&H. The price would be cheaper within China.

We are seeing more hardware eg phones that are only available in China where the middle class market is becoming a big enough segment to support volume - especially at the price points vs native lenses.
Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo all have china-excluding models for instance and these are not low end models.

For perspective, 2% of China's population is about 30m people who have >USD50k personal disposable income ie prosumers.
Add the number of professionals eg wedding photographers then the addressable market is larger.

Canon may also not go for them as it would mean more MILC body sales in China.

On the exact opposite, Canon has a own sub company in China, which sues anyone trying to sell third party RF lenes. Nikon just did it to Viltrox.

Daniel Wu · Apr 3, 2026

mimbu said:
Probably a shell company set up specifically to sell RF versions of the Meike lenses under a different brand. That way when Canon decides to sue the pants off them, there are no assets to go after. That shell company can just be shut down and another one will pop up. This might end up being the way the Chinese brands get their lenses onto RF.

They've been seelling those in south east asia for over one year.

Click · Apr 3, 2026

Very nice spring flowers. Happy Easter!

neuroanatomist · Apr 3, 2026

Nemorino said:
or faster lenses which are more expensive, bigger, heavier and have less DOF.

Or both, which is why I use a FF camera and shoot indoor events with a 100-300/2.8 and birds with a 600/4.

BlueBomberTurbo · Apr 3, 2026

Who cares. Just get those lenses out there. Meike optics are great, as is their AF (on Sony, at least).

Swurre · Apr 3, 2026

Another chinese brand...

AcaPixus · Apr 3, 2026

Well, with that barrel diameter on the AI generated camera+lens image there should be no problem for Canon, as the barrel seems rather to small to fit the RF mount ....!!
I am not a super fan of AI generated images for that sort of things.

Edit: On second inspection it may not even be AI generated, but just a composite where lens and camera are not to scale??

AlanF · Apr 3, 2026

el peso said:
Vistilen? Why not Vilisten, Vinistel, Vilistine? Who names them that way and why?

I would guess that it is a combination of Vista + Lens. The Chinese like having syllables from western words in their naming.

Xpenelas · Apr 3, 2026

Looks like Vistilen it's the brand they would use to sell Nikon Z Mount and Canon RF lenses with licensed autofocus capabilities.
Like they are going to get better performance than Meike's counterparts crippled to meet E-Mount third party lenses limitations.

AlanF · Apr 3, 2026

I just remembered I posted a careful comparison of the RF 200-800mm and RF 100-500mm close up shots. The upshot was that at ~3.5m (or more) the 200-800mm at 500mm or 600mm is slightly sharper than the 100-500mm. At 2.4m, the RF 200-800mm is as sharp in the centre at 500 and 600mm as the RF 200-500mm but field curvature causes loss of sharpness of the longer lens moving away from the centre. At close to the minimum focal length of close to a meter, for which you have to zoom out to 200mm for the RF 200-800mm, the RF 100-500mm at 500mm has a larger image. Both are sharp at the centre but the 200mm loses sharpness quickly away from the centre.
So quick take home message is that for greater than 3m, the RF 200-800mm is my choice, for shorter distances the RF 100-500mm.

https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/threads/rf-200-800mm-vs-rf-100-500mm-very-close-up.43371/

Celts88 · Apr 3, 2026

Canon Rumors said:
"Ported" and being able to actually make enough are different things. A lens like the 135 f/1.4 would be a very difficult lens to make within tight tolerances. Sigma made nothing worth owning for most of the EF days. When they did start making things that were sort of nice there were already 100+ million EF lenses. Having worked directly with Gentec, I know how few lenses they sold in the grand scheme in at least one market (maybe 2). It was peanuts.

Demand increasing 30% is great, now you have to scale everything else 30%. There's a point in lots of businesses where the next step costs exponentially more than the previous one.

Take a company like Leica (yes, they do it different). They make 40 cameras a day. Major products usually take about a year to meet the demand. How much would it cost them to increase production to 60 a day? A boatload. Sigma is closer to Leica than they are to Canon. Leica's revenue is actually higher than Sigma's.

Agree it's not as simple as just ramping up production.

A similar scenario happens in the piano industry. Kawai make ABS-Carbon actions (Millennium III action) as they have the size to do the research and testing to ensure it's of sufficient quality to enable them to put into full production. Lots of the other elite piano makers just don't have the technology / research infrastructure in the background to swap to carbon so continue with wood. It's not that ABS-Carbon actions aren't good enough as Kawai use them in their top class pianos and have the advantage of needing less tuning as the carbon seldom changes whereas wood is affected far more due to changing environmental conditions during season shifts.

Nemorino · Apr 3, 2026

neuroanatomist said:
you need a bigger sensor to collect more light

or faster lenses which are more expensive, bigger, heavier and have less DOF.

SereneSpeed · Apr 3, 2026

I’m worried about the buffer in the (rumored) R7ii. I’d like a very substantial buffer, but aren’t buffers going to be limited by the supply of CFexpress cards. Indirect logic, I know… but will Canon still raise the price of the R7ii/resist lowering the price (by installing less buffer/DRAM) if the market as a whole can’t use it?

Maybe it makes no difference, because Canon can still sell the camera based on the specs?

I feel like this is a camera that will pull people up market from cameras without CFe slots. But dang, if you don’t own CFe cards by now…

Anyway, just something I’m concerned about - In the fantasy land where the camera I actually want may be a reality

josephandrews222 · Apr 2, 2026

The colors of spring in the midwest USA; our pink dogwood barely made it through another winter...the 'net tells me it should grow a foot each year.

Ours is the same height as it was five years ago and is barely hanging on; we feel fortunate to see some pink blossoms this spring.

5DMk3 with Tamron SP AF 70-200mm F2.8 Di LD (IF) Macro (about 15 years old)

5D3_3714 picasa crop and fix-topaz2-denoise.JPG

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