BillB said:
Actually, Canon did not miss a chance with mirrorless technology, it made a choice. The choice was to use dual pixel technology and take the time needed to develop it.
DPAF was enabling tech, sure, but they didn't exactly wait for it with EOS M. Also, DPAF may have happened without mirrorless happening: it is more of a bedrock 'everything benefits from this' core technology that may have already been in the works to give them a LiveView advantage on SLRs as well.
But I think they made a choice all right:
the choice to let the market mature and define itself before making the massive investment and (possible) new mount decision. When mirrorless first broke, it was a zoo -- tiny Olympus PEN cameras, bigger A7 I and A7R I dropping out of the blue, fixed lens (larger sensored) mirrorless rigs, etc. (Remember Nikon leaping to action with the CX sensor?)
Remember -- Canon did the same thing before: they came in late with EOS M. There, they thought things through, and then they executed. They will do the same for FF.
- A