Antono Refa said:Kit. said:A clue for what?Antono Refa said:And EOS-M isn't a big enough clue here?Mikehit said:As I see it the rumours have developed in this way:CanonFanBoy said:I wish Canon would announce for one reason: To put all these mount arguments and EF is dead or dieing threads out of our misery one way or the other. This is really getting old.
Canon is developing FF mirrorless
I think mirrorless cameras have to be smaller to compete with Sony
Smaller flange distance means new mount
That Canon has no intention of killing the EF mount.
The introduction of FF mirrorless is a completely different proposition to the M series.
If you think back to the introduction of DSLRs, APS-C was introduced because of the technological challenges of making affordable FF sensors so they introduced a cropped sensor. That cropped sensor had to take the EF lenses already in existence which meant that even when they started making EF-S lenses specifically for DSLR they were constrained on how small they could go in designing lenses.
When Canon introduced the M series, they also took the decision that the new camera did not need to accept EF lenses as native, and this gave them the freedom to design smaller lenses in a smaller mount.
So the rationale behind M series and the FF mirrorless are completely independent.
Upvote
0