For some time now, the rumors have swirled, and today they bear fruit. Just two weeks short of the fifth anniversary of Olympus and Panasonic's debut of their joint Micro Four Thirds system standard for compact system cameras, long-time mirrorless holdout Canon becomes the last major manufacturer to acknowledge the burgeoning market for interchangeable-lens cameras that do away with the bulky mirror box and optical viewfinder of traditional DSLRs. The first Canon mirrorless camera is the Canon EOS M, and while it retains the EOS brandname, it debuts a brand-new lens mount, the EF-M mount....
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