Canon officially confirms IBIS is coming in future R cameras

Amateur Photographer interviewed Canon managers and here are some highlights:

About the future of the EOS-M:
That’s a product development for the future so I can’t go into detail, and the market will dictate what sort of direction we should take. If the customers do want a small size, lightweight mount I believe there is room for that, so as we said […] we will continue to work with the M mount.

About IBIS on the EOS-R:
In terms of IBIS, we are looking into it for the future. We believe IBIS will work together hand in hand with optical IS lenses, such as the ones you see in front of you, to offer better features.

Canon EOS-R High End camera:
yes, we are considering a higher-end premium body, as you mention.

About the future of the digital camera market:
The pace of the shift to mirrorless has slowed down a bit here in Japan and the mirrorless market share for cameras stands at about 60%. As you may know, Canon has a history of not always being first in the market with new technology, but we are very good at catching up, going beyond and becoming the leader.

To me it doesn’t sound like the M system has a real future :)

via CanonWatch

First Panasonic S1 and S1R reviews

Here are some new Panasonic S news:

First: You get a free battery and grip with the S1-S1R preorder at BHphoto (Click here).

Second: Photographyblog posted their full Panasonic S1R Review. The conclusion:

Panasonic’s first attempt at a 35mm full-frame mirrorless camera is an impressive one, offering a long list of mouth-watering features, superb image quality, and great handling. The S1R is definitely a serious contender to the Sony A7R III and Nikon Z7.

Two more tests:
Panasonic S1 & S1R Hands-On, Part II: New full-frame mirrorless cameras impress in Texa by Imaging Resource.
Hands-on with the 24-105mm f/4, 50mm f/1.4 and 70-200mm f/4 lenses by Imaging Resource.

Preorders:
Panasonic S1R at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto. In Europe at Calumet DE, ParkCameras, Jessops.
Panasonic S1 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto. In Europe at Calumet DE, ParkCameras, Jessops.
Panasonic 50mm f/1.4 S at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto. In Europe at Calumet DE, ParkCameras, Jessops.
Panasonic 24-105mm f/4.0 S at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto. In Europe at Calumet DE, ParkCameras, Jessops.
Panasonic 70-200mm f/4.0 S at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto. In Europe at Calumet DE, ParkCameras, Jessops.

Sony and Panasonic will have a product launch event on April 7

Both companies have scheduled a press conference at the Nabshow on the same day:

Panasonic at 1pm Las Vegas time
Sony at 2pm Las Vegas time

What to expect? I know everyone is waiting for the Sony A7sIII but it looks like this camera migth be reayd for very late 2019 only. And from Panasonic we might get some early info about the video oriented S camera?

Canon’s next mirrorless camera will have 70+ Megapixels?

That Canon’s next R model will be a High Megapixel camera is 100% certain. Latest unconfirmed rumor is that this camera will be announce in late 2019 and feature a new 70+ megapixel sensor and IBIS.

I am pretty sure both Nikon and Sony will have such a model release too. We are getting slowly closer to the 100 megapixel barrier. Get ready to buy a ton of external hard drives :)

via CanonRumors