Leaked Image of the EOS-RV
Its seems as if Canon is readying a small camera similar in nature to the Sony ZV-E10 II. It's been thought that Canon would move into this space, especially considering how well the Sony ZV-E10 II has been selling.
Looking at the picture, it seems as if it is going to come with it’s own lens with power zoom (the T-W on the side of the lens gives that away), and there’s a lever on the shutter button that I would presume is the zoom lever.
Other clues that we can guess from the image are slim, there is an articulating screen hinge visable, standard mode dial and one another top control dial. It’s difficult to guess at the button on the bottom corner on the front of the camera, but it seems to say record (“REC”).
It’s also quite a large lens in terms of diameter when you consider that most of Canon’s RF-S lenses are smaller in diameter than the RF mount’s diameter and flare out to fit the full size of the mount.
This could be to support the electronic power zoom features of the lens, or simply to look good.
This is quite a radical ergonomic change from normal Canon EOS, so it’s an interesting divergence from what would be the norm for Canon.
If we look at the PowerShot V1, we can see going by the hotshoe size and comparing it to the image, that it’s similar in depth, not not even a little deeper than the PowerShot V1 body.
There also seems to be a fairly larger grill next to the hotshoe and the body itself seems very chunky, so I suspect there is some form of active cooling in the camera which probably leads itself well to the “V” designation.
Similar to the Sony ZV-E10 Series – It’s Main Competitor
This camera seems to share alot of similarities, and probably more similarities with the Sony ZV-E10 series of cameras than it does Canon’s own cameras.
As you can see the Sony also supports power zooming via a button around the shutter button, and mode and control dial arrangement grouped up on the right hand size.
The Sony does seem to be more slim and not as deep as the Canon EOS-RV, but at the same time, the Sony could be more limited in video recording times.
We hope to have further information soon, but this looks like finally a repacement for those with the EOS-M6 cameras.
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