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Today Canon announced the new SL3 and it’s the first time I see a title like this from DPreview. Canon’s new DSLR camera is that much disappointing even they couldn’t hide it :)

Canon promotes this as a Dual Pixel AF camera with 5 axis IS and 4K. But than the reality is:

• 4k is as usual cropped and not APS-C
• The Dual Pixel AF doesn’t work in 4K
• 5 axis stabilization is only…electronic!

It’s a joke :(

Imaging Resource interviewed Canon and there are mainly two hints about the future:

– Canon will be leveling up the sensor tech

– There is a lot more in the pipeline for 2019

Easy to guess the High End EOS-R camera is coming as next!

Sigma CEO Yamaki spilled out some beans in an interview posted by Dpreview:

L-mount lenses:
Sigma plans to launch a couple of properly designed mirrorless L-mount lenses in 2019. I believe those lenses will be available for Sony E-mount too.

X-mount lenses:
Yamaki said this: “Fujifilm doesn’t really disclose the protocol between the lens and camera, so we need to do the reverse engineering by ourselves.
It’s a really time-consuming process so we need to prioritize support for Sony E mount, our L-mount system, existing DSLR mounts and Micro Four Thirds.”

New f/2.0 primes:
Sigma is considering to launch smaller and more compact f/2.0 primes for mirrorless cameras

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via L-rumors

Buckle up dear readers: In February 2019 Japanese camera companies did ship 35% less cameras compared to February 2018. This is much worse than I would have expected. If that trend continues expect some companies to complete drop out of the camera business!

This is worrisome if you consider Nikon and Canon just launched their new systems and you would have expected to see some meaningful sales. Sony on the other hand did only launch one single system camera in the past 13 months. Maybe they are slowing everything down because of the horror market?

Source CIPA.