03-22-2013, 12:41 PM
Quote:Sammy, it is an obvious move market wide indeed. I don't discuss that. But I think they compete more with their own mirrorless than with others. As for an interesting addition, don't you think the mass market is starting to lean on mirrorless and that Canon had better improved the M?I don't know... if you're an existing Canon system user, and you want something smaller, I don't think the M hits the spot for most. Pretty much any other mirroless system is more attractive right now. If the 100D is small enough, it could get picked instead of getting another mirroless system.
One part I'm still not sure of, is mirrorless taking sales away from mirrored? I'm not talking market share, where by definition mirrorless will likely continue to eat into mirrored. I'm wondering if that applies to absolute units shifted. Are DSLR unit sales significantly going to mirrorless, or, is it more like the Wii effect? When the original Wii came out, it didn't really take away unit sales from the 360 or PS3, but carved out a totally new market. So in market share it blew the old school out of the water, but it didn't really affect their unit sales.
As for improving the M, I'm sure it is in the pipeline.
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