The Canon EOS-M

Our japanese friends at Digicaminfo (Translation here) found the full EOS-M spec list! It’s good to hear our sources were right when saying it uses an APS-C sensor. Here are the specs:

– 18 million pixels  APS-C CMOS sensor
– Digic 5 image processing engine
– Hybrid CMOS AF (phase-contrast AF)
– Video Servo AF, Servo AF, AF touch
– ISO100-12800 (25.600 extension)
– shutter speed is 1/4000, bulb, flash sync is 1/200 sec to 30 seconds
– Second continuous shooting speed is 4.3 frames /
– 1.04 million dot LCD monitor 3.0-type wide, touch panel
– The media SD / SDHC / SDXC (corresponding UHS-I)
– Video is 1920×1080 30p/25p/24p, 1280×720 60p/50p, 640×480 30p/25p
– video compression MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, audio Linear PCM, MOV format
– EF lens mount adapter EF-EOS M
– Hand-held Twilight mode
– HDR mode to synthesize three different exposure
– Multi-shot noise reduction function to reduce the noise by combining the four images
– Creative filters
– The size is x 66.5mm (width) 108.6mm (height) x 32.3mm (depth)
– The weight (body only) 262g, (including battery and memory card) 298g
– Kit lens EF-M22mm STM, EF-M18-55mm IS STM
– Comes with a mount adapter and EF-EOS M 90EX Speedlite kit of some

So this EOS-M is using the Kiss X6i sensor in a camera that has the size of the Panasonic GF5. Ha….what do you think now?

Here are some new images of the Canon mirrorless posted on the usual Canon rumor websites like CR and CW and so on…
Thinking on all these leaked pics it’s really looking like an entry level APS-C mirrorless camera. Apparently Canon believes that there is the market…with amateurs and not on the pro segment.

The image on top shows the new 18-55mm lens from Canon which will be announced on Monday along the new EOS-M mirrorless system camera. A zoom of that range fits perfectly on an APS-C sized sensor! And more pics of the new cameras can be seen here (Click on them):

More pictures have been leaked via CR. You can see the Canon’s mirrorless camera (EOS M) and the new EF-M 22mm f/2 STM lens.It looks liek an entry level system camera and very compact in his size. It almost makes me think the sensor is smaller than APS-C!!! What do you think?

The lens has 22mm, it would be 44mm if the sensor would have a Four Thirds sensor size and a 33mm lens with an APS-C sensor.

Finally we have it the first image of the Canon mirrorless camera! The image appeared on Japanese site digicame-info (via Canonwatch). The model name is EOS M (name on top of the camera). And on tha picture you see the EF-M 22mm f/2 STM pancake lens. It has a new New mount called EF-M (“M” for “mirrorless”?). So unlike previous rumors (posted on other websites) this is not going to use a Canon G1X Four Thirds sized sensor! Stay tuned on MirrorlessRumors! We will follow the Canon event live on Monday July 23th! Announcement starts at 6-7 am London time!

I am surprised to see how tight the lips around the Canon mirrorless are. According to CR there is a Canon event this Monday (July 23th). But there was no real leak until now…just bits of info. All I heard via my sources is that Canon will use an APS-C sensor and not the G1X Four Thirds sized sensor.  And here is a sum of the specs leaked by CR and CW:

– One camera has an 18 Megapixel sensor
– AN EF mount adapter (the mirrorless camera uses a new kinf of mount)
– Two lenses (one zoom for sure)

And that’s it! If you may found some leak let me know! Because right now everything looks to quiet! :)

Full rumor roundup at http://www.canonwatch.com/?s=mirrorless

So, we just had a double leak that gives us any info we needed about tomorrow’s Panasonic announcement: 3Dnews (Translation here) and Oman Observer (Click here) posted the full press release. The most important new info is that the LX7 is not going to become the new Sony RX100 competitor. It still uses the same 1:1.7 inch sensor compared to Sony’s 1 inch size. Not a smart move don’t you think?

The Russian press release also points out that Panasonic believes that by 2015 Mirrorless will overtake digital SLR cameras. I am pretty sure they are right in this ;)