EOS Mirrorless FF Like the Leica Q

[hmatthes]

I am evaluating a borrowed Leica Q and it has greatly impressed me. 28mm on FF works beautifully for my landscapes. 24mp is plenty if the noise is low at sane ISO levels. The controls are simple, well engineered (by photographers rater than engineers, I assume), and extremely well built.
It is intuitive in action. The viewfinder puts all the other mirrorless I've used to shame. I still don't use "live view" much, I'm old fashioned!

But I have a wonderful kit of Canon glass. I still use my EOS bodies for everything except landscapes.
So... I would be Canon's first customer for an EOS-xD Mirrorless that:
Uses all EF lenses
Two SD slots
Four "C" modes (The Q has four "Users" the take the place of "C" modes)
MSRP $3,500 with 50mm 1.4 standard

1st image is the lake at Bonneville Salt Flats with HDR in LR; 2nd handheld; 3rd is 12 secs at ISO160
Henry

 

[tphillips63]

I think it would be a great system but not sure if the lenses could fit native so it would probably be a new system as far as all those go.
The Leica lenses out now are at the very high end of cost for 35mm format so as usually for them so I think Canon could compete very well but the market for those systems would have to be very large for Canon to release one.
With Sony's offerings capable of using EOS lenses many feel they are a viable alternative, even compared to the Leica SL.
With the Batis lenses they are probably even better. Reviews of them are really good from what I have read.

 

[ahsanford]

I've long been fond of the Q. It even has the 28mm FF FOV I love.

I see tremendous value in Canon offering a fixed lens FF mirrorless a la the Sony RX1R I/II and Leica Q. It will give them 'batting practice' to get the mirrorless fundamentals right (viewfinder, battery, handling, controls, etc.) before going all-in with interchangeable FF mirrorless.

- A