Other mfgs to ape Panasonic/Olympus

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:58 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

We've heard the Nikon and Fuji rumours, now Canon.

http://www.photographybay.com/2009/1...a-coming-soon/

Hmmm....

What lens mount? What sensor? No way Canon would go 4/3, so a scaled
down rebel without the mirror box? With Canon's lame contrast-detect
focusing?

Nah.

Bowser wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:58 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

We've heard the Nikon and Fuji rumours, now Canon.

http://www.photographybay.com/2009/1...a-coming-soon/

Hmmm....

What lens mount? What sensor? No way Canon would go 4/3, so a scaled
down rebel without the mirror box? With Canon's lame contrast-detect
focusing?

They might indeed do it without affecting their DSLR business a single
iota.

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:21:28 -0500, Alan Browne
wrote:

Bowser wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:58 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

We've heard the Nikon and Fuji rumours, now Canon.

http://www.photographybay.com/2009/1...a-coming-soon/

Hmmm....

What lens mount? What sensor? No way Canon would go 4/3, so a scaled
down rebel without the mirror box? With Canon's lame contrast-detect
focusing?

They might indeed do it without affecting their DSLR business a single
iota.

I just doubt that Canon would move to the 4/3 open standard and build
cameras that anyone can make lenses for (that would actually work).
Doesn't make any sense to me. Something else that doesn't make sense
is Canon building an EVIL camera that uses the EF-S mount. The lenses
are too damned big to allow for a small camera.

See? Nothing makes sense to me.

Bowser wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:21:28 -0500, Alan Browne
wrote:

Bowser wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:58 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

We've heard the Nikon and Fuji rumours, now Canon.

http://www.photographybay.com/2009/1...a-coming-soon/
Hmmm....

What lens mount? What sensor? No way Canon would go 4/3, so a scaled
down rebel without the mirror box? With Canon's lame contrast-detect
focusing?
They might indeed do it without affecting their DSLR business a single
iota.

I just doubt that Canon would move to the 4/3 open standard and build
cameras that anyone can make lenses for (that would actually work).
Doesn't make any sense to me. Something else that doesn't make sense
is Canon building an EVIL camera that uses the EF-S mount. The lenses
are too damned big to allow for a small camera.

See? Nothing makes sense to me.

I see what you write, but that doesn't answer for what Canon might do.
I'm not cheering this on as inevitable, BTW.

Bowser wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:58 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

We've heard the Nikon and Fuji rumours, now Canon.

http://www.photographybay.com/2009/1...a-coming-soon/

Hmmm....

What lens mount? What sensor? No way Canon would go 4/3, so a scaled
down rebel without the mirror box? With Canon's lame contrast-detect
focusing?

Nah.

I don't quite see why Canon would ditch their EOS mount either.
Most of their "Rebel" line of DSLR cameras are barely bigger than most
of the 4/3 DSLR cameras from Olympus, Panasonic and Leica.
Perhaps they (Canon) might produce an EVIL EOS camera rock-bottom priced
entry-level to the EOS system, but their current entry level DSLR camera
is cheaper than all of the current EVIL mu4/3 cameras from Olympus and
Panasonic.

Some camera manufacturers which have nothing (or little) to lose are
Ricoh and Samsung, but they've already shown their hand with the GXR
system and the Nx system (respectively).