Back in October Yongnuo announced the first ever third party trigger (and a SpeedLite) that is fully compatible with Canon’s 2.4ghz TTL radio triggering “RT” technology. The trigger is the YN-E3-RT and it is now in stock at the YongNuoStore for $145.99.

The YN-E3-RT trigger attaches to your Canon via the flash hotshoe, it allows to control and set all compatible devices (for the time being the Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT and the upcoming Yongnuo YN600EX-RT). The YN-E3-RT has a pretty cool feature: you can upload firmware updates via an USB port. At least potentially that could mean the Youngnuo can get new features via update.

Source: Personal-View

As you see Asian countries are rapidly switching to Mirrorless cameras. Europe’s mirrorless market is also slowly growing. But it’s in North America where MILCs still not break the DSLR sales. Hard to guess what the reasons are.

Not surprising that Canon announced their new EOS M2 only in Asia (at least for the time being).

CIPA data of cameras shipped by Japanese companies (October 2013)

[via 43rumors]

 

Amazon has good discounts on SanDisk Ultra MicroSDHC Memory Cards with Adapter: 16GB – $9.99 (compared to $19.99) 32GB – $16.79 (compared to $69.99) 64GB – $34.99 (compared to $99.99)

Dcwatch (translated) interviewed the managing director and chief executive of Canon’s Image Communication Products Operations, Mr. Masaya Maeda. Google translation from Japanese is pretty poor. However, these appear to be the main points of the interview:

• A new EOS M camera with built-in EVF could arrive in the second half of 2014 .
• The focus on EOS M systems is to keep size down [editor’s note: the new EOS M2 is 8% smaller than the EOS M]
• Hybrid still+video performance is a key aspect on Canon’s future mirrorless cameras development
• There will be new lenses for the EOS M system
• Canon is also considering the possibility to make a more semi pro if not pro mirrorless cameras
• Canon is committed to the EOS Cinema line

 

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