This is an open letter with my ...

Wish List to Canon:                                                   Saturday, August 29, 2015

As regards Casual Photography, everybody seems to be leaving at home their compact, no viewfinder, tiny chip (yet, large pixel-count) point ‘n shoot camera, favouring their phone/camera, i.e. the camera that is by default built into their smart phone (and which - by default - they always carry with them). These cameras are becoming very cool, i.e. the one in the Apple iPhone 6, the Panasonic DCM-CM1 (my blog 571) etc. Two points:

 

·      phone/cameras are limited … not really suited for serious photography

·      soon even photographers - professionals as well as amateurs - will want to carry around with them just the one digital device 

So this is my request: 

Can we please have a quality camera/phone with ... a 4 x zoom lens, 25mm to 100mm (35mm comparable) at f/2.8; a large chip (ok, the lens may have to be f/4.0); RAW files; manual functions, like the Panasonic ... and the cinch is a viewfinder. Myself, I really would like an optical viewfinder (something like the Fujifilm X100T). Thanks.

 

As regards Professional Photography, I was excited to find out about a 50mp Canon, but I was disappointed to learn that the camera used for the sensor is the 5D. I don’t really like the 5D. I have always used - from the beginning - the EOS 1. My understanding is that the current EOS 1Dx in the main is a sports-shooter camera; maybe also a press camera … with its fast burst rate etc.

 

I would like to see a camera that sits between the EOS 1 and the EOS 5, maybe an EOS 3 (?). Smaller than the 1, more substantial than the 5, with controls like the 1. 

This would be the camera for professional advertising and fashion photographers, who largely work in the studio; when outdoors - mostly - in fine weather. This would be the camera designed to truly compete with medium format.

 

Importantly: This camera should shoot three resolutions: 50mp, 25mp, 12.5mp … where - and this would be the challenge to Canon - the lower resolutions offer the image/pixel depth of sensors with a low pixel count, but larger pixels. So if I don’t need 50mp, but just 10 or 12mp, I have the quality of a low mp full size sensor to work with. (And then - one day, maybe in 10 yrs time - the sensor will be upgraded to offer 4 resolutions, incl. 100mp; no, I correct myself, not maybe …)  

I have absolutely no idea how this can be achieved … but that’s what I want!!! 

For the EOS 3D I want three prime lenses (sell them in a kit): 25mm, 50mm, 100mm … these lenses can all be f/2.8, or even f/4. But they shall be matched to the very high resolution of the sensor, with no chromatic aberration, superior sharpness right to the edges and no distortion. They would be of the same quality as Leica lenses. 

Here is another point where they really differ from the other L lenses. These lenses all shall be designed to be used with a tripod bracket, even the wide angle ... call these lenses the “PRO Series”.   

The bracket shall be designed in a way where you use  it  to remove the camera from the tripod … not a device attached to the camera body; furthermore, the bracket shall allow for easy portrait / landscape orientation of the camera; lastly, one bracket shall fit all 3 lenses.

p.s.

just to be sure, the EOS 3 - as shown above - does not exist; it is a figment of my imagination

(the term "wish-thinking" was invented for me)