m4/3 Competitor
Received some information about a possible Canon competitor to the Olympus/Panasonic micro 4/3 cameras.
![c500d - Micro Canon [CR1]](https://www.canonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/c500d.jpg "Micro Canon [CR1]")
Canon is researching such a camera design. There is a lot of close attention being paid to the success or failure of the system. Canon has no immediate plans to introduce such a camera to the marketplace, nor do they have any plans to become part of the micro 4/3 mount.
Canon's interest seems to lie in making a CMOS based APS-C compact camera with a zoom. Not a new system. Leica and Sigma both have APS-C compact cameras now, albeit with a prime lens. Also, Nikon is rumored to perhaps have the same thing coming down their pipeline.
Another issue with a Micro Canon is the need for a 3rd lens format. EF-S and EF lenses would generally be too big on an EP1 sized camera. Do you think Canon really wants to get into that? If they did want a new lens format, medium format would be a far more desirable market.
All is not lost in the quest for a small camera body. You can expect a smaller Rebel down the line with an electronic viewfinder. It won't be as small as the EP1 or GF1, but taking out the mirror box will shrink the size.
No new news on the often spoken about “G”MOS camera.
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“(2) a 2.8f lens
(3) 24mm – 200mm”
Yeah, and medium format sensor, price under $100. Honestly, do you have any idea what you are asking for? Even for a P&S with a tiny sensor this lens would be HUGE and the glass expensive if even feasible to design.
That’s one of the stupidest comments I’ve seen in a long time. Desireable for any company (maybe except for Leica) means high volume which is much more profitable than selling a few thousand medium format cameras each year. Medium format would also mean a completely new series of lenses while a Micro EF could work with a couple of new ones and standard FF and EFS lenses like Olympus and Panasonic do.
“Canon’s interest seems to lie in making a CMOS based APS-C compact camera with a zoom. Not a new system”
“All is not lost in the quest for a small camera body. You can expect a smaller Rebel down the line with an electronic viewfinder. It won’t be as small as the EP1 or GF1, but taking out the mirror box will shrink the size”
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This is a contradiction in terms.
Removing the mirror from a Canon Rebel to make it smaller would be effectively creating a new system. If you want to make the camera smaller not only do you have to remove the mirror but you also need to reduce the flange focal depth. Otherwise, removing the mirror would only leave an unused empty space inside the camera.
And if, indeed, you reduce the flange focal depth reducing the size of the camera, all Canon lenses would become unusable, and you would have to design new lenses adapted to the shorter flange focal length, thus, creating a new system.
This rumor has zero credibility
What I want is an EF-S 22mm 1.4 (36 mm equiv), EF-S 30mm 1.4 (48mm equiv) and a EF 50mm 1.4 Mk II (80mm equiv) or a 55mm 1.4 (88mm equiv). All with I/R, CA etc like an EF-S 17-55mm 2.8. To keep size down a 1.8/2.0 22mm and 30mm would be OK. I’d pay $500.00/$600.00 for any of these.
BIG, HEAVY lenses SUCK. Big, heavy cameras also SUCK.
You’re wrong, just because the mirror is removed doesn’t mean they cant change the design/size of a DSLR and make sure current lenses continue to work.
No prism immediately takes bulge off the top. Who says the viewfinder has to be centered on the camera? You could put an EVF in the same sort of place like a rangefinder.
Can’t stand people that think they know everything.