Canon Watch

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Canon WatchRumoursFrom Retro Rebels to 600mm Reach: Every Canon Camera and Lens Rumor Worth Believing Right Now The EOS R8 Mark II is real, a 300-600mm may be weeks away, and the rumor mill says Canon isn’t done with 2026 yet. Canon doesn’t do quiet autumns.

10.07

Canon WatchRumoursCanon EOS R6 V Officially Announced: 7K RAW, Active Cooling, No EVF – And It’s 300 Cheaper Than the R6 III Pre-orders are available at B&H Photo: It’s official. Canon has announced the EOS R6 V, a video-first full-frame mirrorless camera that borrows the R6 Mark III’s sensor, throws in 7K RAW recording…

05.20

Canon WatchRumoursCanon EOS R6 V Rumor Round-Up: Everything We Know So Far Or: Canon Builds a Cinema Camera, Then Removes the Cinema Price Tag Canon is announcing the EOS R6 V on May 13, 2026.

05.08

Canon WatchRumoursCanon’s Next PowerShot Is Getting an “All-New” Sensor (Whatever That Means) Canon is coming back to compact cameras with not just new bodies, but an “all-new” sensor. Because apparently reusing perfectly good silicon would be too easy.

04.13

Canon WatchRumoursCanon Patent: Compact APS-C Wide Primes — 10mm, 12mm, 18mm & 28mm F2.8 Canon has filed a patent application (publication number P2026052804, published March 25, 2026, filed September 12, 2024) covering optical systems that look suspiciously like a lineup of compact…

03.27

Canon WatchRumoursCanon Patent: Fast Wide Primes — 14mm f/1.4, 18mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.8 Optical Systems Canon is apparently not done dreaming about fast wide primes. A new patent application published March 12, 2026 (JP P2026043301, filed August 28, 2024) covers a family of large-aperture wide-angle…

03.21

Canon WatchRumoursCanon’s Legendary 24-70mm f/2.8L Might Be Getting a Wider Successor — And Yes, It Would Have VCM Canon’s Legendary EF 24-70mm f/2.8L Might Be Getting a Wider Successor — And Yes, It Would Have VCM If you’ve been using the RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM and thinking “this is great, but what if it…

03.20

Canon WatchRumoursCanon Is (Maybe, Possibly, Allegedly) Working on Three New PowerShot Cameras in 2026 Because one vague promise wasn’t enough. Let’s review the facts, such as they are: a retail source, in a country that must not be named, like some kind of camera Voldemort, sat in on a “future…

03.10

Canon WatchRumoursA New Canon Macro Longer Than 100mm With Variable Magnification? Yes Please. An anonymous source claims that Canon is planning a new macro lens, longer than 100mm, and with variable magnification ratios. No focal length. No aperture. No timeline.

03.08

Canon WatchRumoursCanon to Announce Faster-Than-F/2.0 Zoom Lens in Late 2026? In news that will shock absolutely no one who has seen camera lens prices lately, Canon is reportedly planning to announce a zoom lens faster than f/2.0 by late 2026. Yes, you read that correctly.

03.08

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo