Canon digital rangefinder?

[totifoto]

Maybe this is old news and has been talked about here but I just ran into this today...

http://www.digitalrev.com/en/canon-...nnouncement-during-pma-2010-5146-article.html

Photoshoped photos but interesting thoughts..

 

[xayraa33]

Well... we are still waiting.

 

[135formatuser]

Looks a bit like a M9, Hope it is just as good and 10 times cheaper..

 

[back alley]

looks like a canon 7 or maybe a p...even has a screw mount...

 

[newspaperguy]

A 'P' fershure.

I'm waiting, too.

But it does need a swing out screen.

 

[Nikon Bob]

That would work for me too.

Bob

 

[lmd91343]

The body looks like a "P" but the speed knob, release and view panel look like an M9. Look at the style of numbers on the dial.

 

[Fujitsu]

Looks sweet. Wont happen.

 

[johannielscom]

*artistic rendering* is what is says on the image.

I'll turn your M9 into a cigarette lighter, gimme thirty minutes, I'll fire up the PS software... 😉

When pigs fly will Canon release a digital RF. Sony would be the likelier candidate given the fact that they sit on the Konica RF plans. Betcha they won't try it, the RF is a bit too tricky to service.

Anyway, only two more months until Photokina, enter the slayer of Leica M9s?

 

[Pirate]

I'll be there, camera in hand... film camera, that is!

 

[user237428934]

Canons competitor is Nikon, no one else. Can they gain market shares back when they launched this? My answer is "no".

 

[btgc]

Canon will rather make another retro-styled AF compact to attract folks who like idea of using film-like digital camera.

 

[cidereye]

Canon will rather make another retro-styled AF compact to attract folks who like idea of using film-like digital camera.

That's what I'm thinking also, like them to prove us all wrong though especially with Nikon's current talk re: mirrorless cameras and the future - a fight between the 2 companies with an RF camera would be amazing but whatever it is it's sure to be very advanced and AF too.

 

[sojournerphoto]

Anyway, only two more months until Photokina, enter the slayer of Leica M9s?

I think there could well be another entry at Photokina - not sure if it will be production ready and I could be entirely wrong. Whether it's an M9 slayer depends on price, performance and (most importantly) the importance of the Leica brand name in underpinning sales.

At present there are basically 5 35mm film rf's available - Leica M7 and MP, Zeiss Ikon (M7 competitor/substitute), Bessa RxA and RxM (M7 abnd MP competitor/substitute respectively). So 2 mechanical and 3 electronic options. Development costs amortised over a longer life than a dslr. It will be interesting to see if a drf can be built at an affordable price that allows development to be amortised over a production life that fits the digital model - given lower sales volumes of rf's compared to dslrs.

Mike

 

[jsrockit]

A canon P, Leica digital M hybrid?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

A Digitized Canon Rangefinder.

Unless you see it on a Polaroid SX-70 print, developing in front of you that you saw pop out of the camera, do not believe it. That's what I have to do to convince my boss that something that I take a picture of is for real.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Not ANOTHER pointless, witless Photoshop fantasy!

Who's going to Photoshop a Tessina with the TLR screen turned into a monitor? Or a digital Contax I?

Who else will be in Cologne to see what is REALLY going to be available? See http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/photokina 10.html

Cheers,

R.

 

[LeicaFoReVer]

Canon does not need such thing...

 

[PatrickONeill]

they do have an compact, "large sensor" (APS-C?), interchangeable camera system in the works. and if its like any of the other offerings from oly, pany and sony. someone will make an M-adapter for it.

and that's as close as it's ever going to get.