The rumored Canon EOS M2 mirrorless camera was officially announced in Japan:
The new product is a model that inherits the concept model "EOS M" (9 January 2012), the balance of small size, light weight and high image quality equivalent to that of the digital single-lens reflex camera EOS series conventional. Evolved significantly AF performance from previous models, while equipped with a wireless LAN function anew, we are downsizing about 8% volume.
Users can in addition to fun to shooting full-fledged easily and comfortable, get the pleasure of after shooting to easily share with your friends and family a photograph by this.
Over a wide area of approximately 80% vertically and horizontally of the shooting screen, we have adopted to enable the combination of the imaging surface phase difference AF and contrast AF to "hybrid CMOS AF II". As a result, the conventional model ※ 1 in the ranging area wider than, about 2.3 times to ※ 2 enables fast focusing, it is possible to achieve a shooting in the composition he wanted, ability to respond to a moving subject is improving will.
By the deployment of the video engine DIGIC 5 and CMOS sensor APS-C size of about 18 million pixels, and has realized the continuous shooting performance of about 4.6 frames / second highest image quality and large-sized sensor only. In addition, up to ISO12800 ※ 3 The shooting is possible by conventional ISO sensitivity (extended ISO25600), with reduced noise even in dark.
Smartphone from a Wi-Fi enabled, remote operations, such as the incorporation of still images that are recorded to the memory card in the camera and taking still pictures ※ 4 can be done.
Sales of interchangeable lens type digital camera of 2012 (worldwide) has reached to about 18 million units of about 13% increase over the previous year. I expect have been affected by the economic downturn in China and Europe mainly in 2013, but to maintain and about 18 million units, the same level as the prior-year level. (Canon research)
