Image on top: Canon Director Mr. Makoto.

Dcwatch (google translation here) posted the content of an interview with Canon director MR. Makoto. Based on what the google translation tool provides us we have the following information:

– New EOS-M with built-in EVF could arrive the second half of 2014 .

– EOS-M focus is on keeping size down

– One key aspect on future mirrorless cameras is the hybrid still+video performance

– There will be new lenses for the EOS-M system

– Canon is also “studying” the possibility to make more semi pro or pro mirrorless cameras (Whatever that means…LOL).

For now Canon didn’t take the mirrorless camera world very seriously. But I am pretty sure this is going to change in 2014. The problems for them is. Will they be able to catch up with the best cameras like the Fuji X-E2, Sony A7r and Olympus E-M1?

Fujirumors reports that Fuji will launch an All Black Fuji X100s in January. But more important the new X-PRO1 firmware release has been postponed til Dec. 19. Not a big deal, we can wait a couple of days more. Wich other companies would work as good as Fuji does when releasing fw updates!

Hoppyman from Leica Camera Forum found an interesting interview with Leica CEO Alfred Schopf (made at www.zinio.com/camera). These are some of the key info unveiled by the CEO:

DSLR vs Mirrorless: …”to be honest, I’m not 100 percent sure where the D-SLR market is going to be in the future. The mirrorless cameras are coming on and on and on and I’m not entirely convinced that in ten years time we will have a D-SLR market“

About a future Leica mirrorless (non rangefinder):  “We will have one, definitely. And it will, of course, be quite different to M system. We want to have autofocus with such a system and we may well have an APSC size sensor rather than a bigger one…….It will be a German built camera, however I’m not sure we can make all of the lenses made in Germany because we are talking about a different price range to M system so I could imagine that we do some fixed focal length lenses in Germany and maybe with the zooms we will co-operate with a partner” He stresses that Leica won’t be building on Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds format!

About the Film Camera future: “We are now the world’s biggest manufacturer of film cameras on the planet- because we are the only one, more or less. As long as we get orders we will continue. At the moment we get between 600 and 700 orders per year…………“

Yep, their new mirrorless camera is coming, and if the CEO isn’t fooling us it will be definitely not a Micro Four Thirds mount camera!

Sigma Rumors posted a rumor saying that Sigma will make a Micro Four Thirds camera with Foveon sensor. We don’t have track of the site reliability yet. But one of my very trusted sources told me that it’s TRUE that Sigma will launch an interchangeable mirrorless camera with Foveon sensor in 2014!

I can only say…finally Sigma!

Let’s start the week with a small bad news. A couple of months ago Fujifilm, said the new XF10-24mm f/4.0 OIS lens would be available in winter 2013. We were hoping to get this lens right for Christmas but instead we will have to wait til February to get it :(

By the way, in February we expect Fuji to launch that OMD alike X-mount camera too! It’s going to be a nice month for X-mount fans. Save your money :)

In an interview with DC.watch (google translation here) the Sony A7-A7r developers explained that a Sony A7 with NEX-7 alike design would have become considerably larger. And the EVF placement in the middle is an advantage if you sue larger A-mount lenses (you eye is on the optical axis).

There is also a hint about the FE lens roadmap: They confirm that faster Sony FE lenses are in development (faster than the Zeiss FE 55mm f/1.8!). Great news!

Leica and Panasonic are known for working together on the compact camera front. And now multiple trusted(!) sources confirmed that they are working together to realize Leica’s first mirrorless (and non rangefinder) system camera! The camera will be launched pretty soon (likely in January-February).

The sources told us that they will share the specs soon. It means dear Leica fans…stay tuned on MirrorlessRumors! :)