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<p><strong>Masaya Maeda spills the beans
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Canon’s head of their Image Communications Products has told Reuters that Canon is working on an EVIL/Small DSLR camera.</span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">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.</span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Maeda went a few steps further.</p>
<blockquote><p>“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.”</p></blockquote>
<p>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?</p>
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<div id="_mcePaste">“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.”</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">He denied this would be difficult without removing the internal mirror, adding that Canon had produced very small SLR cameras in the past.</div>
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<p>No time table was mentioned.</p>
<p><strong>Read More: </strong><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE66J04U20100720"><strong>http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE66J04U20100720</strong></a></p>
<p><em>thanks Keith</em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">c</span>r</strong></p>