I think they may have already missed the starting gate. I looked at the
M before I bought the E-M5. A little bigger sensor but, overall, too
little, too late. Paraphrasing one of the comments on TOP regarding the
fire sale on the model Ms... not worth it even at half price.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/12/2013 6:00 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> http://www.canonrumors.com/2013/07/the-next-eos-m-cameras-cr1/
>
> Appears they are throwing substantial resources at this despite a very
> lackluster entry. One would bet their Speed Booster equivalent
> won't come cheap but may be difficult to design for absolute FF FOV for
> the 1.6X sensor. Brain Caldwell's (reknown optical designer responsible
> for the Speed Booster) white paper
> descibed a "cliff "of aberrations at about .7X which may be why the
> final product is .71X. They didn't use any ED or aspheric elements
> though and who know's what Canyon will do.
>
> Looked interesting to me.
>
> Mirrorless bound, Mike
>
>
>
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