Category Archives: Canon

Canon to announces five new RF mirrorless lenses

Canon is going to announces five new RF mirrorless full-frame lenses (most likely next week together with the new Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera). This is in line with Canon’s new plan for accelerate development of mirrorless products. Here are the 5 lenses:

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Additional Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera specifications

A quick update to my post from yesterday with some additional Canon EOS RP specifications:

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More Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera rumors

Some additional information on the rumored Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera:

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Canon to accelerate development of new mirrorless products (2018 financial results are out)

Canon’s 2018 financial results are out: Canon expects its annual operating profit to drop for the first time in three years Canon forecasts an operating profit of 325 billion yen ($2.97 billion) for 2019, down 5.2 percent from 342.95 billion yen a year earlier – the first decline since 2016 Tough competition in mirrorless interchangeable […]

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What else is new?

→ The new Pentax lenses are now available for pre-order: 11-18mm f/2.8 at Adorama & B&H and 35mm f/2 at Adorama & B&H. → Meike lenses are now available for sale at B&H. → Meike has a new 50mm f/1.7 lens for Nikon Z-mount, → Meike also has a new 6-11mm f/3.5 APS-C manual focusing fisheye zoom lens for Fiji X-mount.

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More info on the upcoming Canon cameras (three DSLRs, two mirrorless and three compacts)

A quick update on the registered but not yet officially announced cameras – we now have another list of upcoming Canon cameras that gives us some additional information: 30MP interchangeable lens camera (no, this is not the rumored Canon EOS PR – it will most likely be a new DSLR camera since the dimensions are […]

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Canon sees a grim future for the camera business: the digital camera market is likely to shrink by half in the next two years

Here is a recap of a recent interview with Canon’s president Fujio Mitarai for the Japanese website Nikkei:

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New Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera to be announced next

The Japanese website Nokishita reports that a new Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera could be announced next/soon. The report is based on a new Canon EG-E1 battery grip (SKU 3484C001) being registered overseas. The EG-E1 will be available in three different colors. There are some unconfirmed reports that the Canon EOS RP will be an entry level mirrorless […]

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Sigma lens compatibility with Canon EOS R mirrorless cameras

Sigma issued an update on their lens compatibility with the Canon EOS R mirrorless camera – the autofocus and image stabilization work “without any issues”:

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Sony α7 III vs. Canon EOS R vs. Nikon Z6 mirrorless sales during the holiday shopping season in Japan

BCN+R published their latest sales results data for the mirrorless camera holiday shopping season in Japan. What I find interesting is that Canon and Nikon mirrorless sales were almost identical in December of 2018:

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