Interesting Interview with Canon Execs by Phototrends on the R1, R3 and R5II

[Tronhard]

There has been a lot of back and forth about the new Canon releases, so I thought it might be interesting to share a link to an interview with Canon Exec staff on their take on the purpose behind these cameras and their design philosophy.  It's in French but your web browser should normally offer to translate that to English for you.  I have shared a link to my own translated version.

https://phototrend-fr.translate.goog/2024/08/interview-canon-eos-r1-eos-r5-ii-manabu-kato-tomokazu-y...

[LeeP]

I'd love to see a full-frame Canon that is as basic as an R100 for say $675. One of my mirrorless bodies is an R100 and I have it because it is utterly so basic and so small that it can go anywhere especially with the 28mm pancake lens. It's like a modern version of the Pentax ME (which I still have and use), small and competent. The R8 is not quite small enough or basic enough for what I am proposing, but the R8 is a fantastic camera to use.

I'd love for Canon to do  a retro-styled body like Nikon did with the Zf. Maybe call it the RE-1 (AE1).

[Tronhard]

You never know, but they are full-stretch pushing out bodies and lenses to keep up with developments in the tech at the moment.  A FF version will be, by physical need, larger than the APS-C and so will the optics, so I wouldn't hold your breath! 

I fell in love with the Nikon Df when it came out about a decade ago.  It is an echo of the bodies I started my career with back in 1980 - FM2, F3, A-1. 

I too wish that Canon would bring out a classic version of something like the R6II, although I would be happy to see it echo the A-1 in a nod to the pragmatic demands for the full set of modes that modern users expect.  
I have three Df bodies and a set of lenses, and I shall never sell them.  The Df was a labour of love from Nikon's retiring head of optics design Teturo Goto, who actually started his career with those very designs I used.  I wrote a long article about it: How I Fell in Love with the Nikon Df