Jared Wilson

Great post! Canon is afraid to take away from their professional video camera sales. That's why they don't want to put clean HDMI on their DSLRs. However, if they don't make the best DSLR possible then someone will beat them to it and steal their sales. What they need to do is create a mirrorless camera and sell it, initially, with an adapter included so that their existing lenses can be used. Then they can go ahead and begin working on a line of lenses for their mirrorless system. They can create a camera the same size as their current models and use the space saved from removing the mirror box to add increased processing power and a headphone jack. They can use the color processing from the C300 for the video and have a clean HDMI out with 8bit 4:2:2. This may take away from C300 and other video sales, but they will make more money if production companies buy 12 of these cameras instead of renting one larger camera. Hurlbut Visuals own a ton of 5D Mark II's because they are cheap. They can have several cameras with back-ups. Production companies can buy several and independent filmmakers can buy one or two. They make up for what they lose in individual unit cost with the quantity they sell. That would set them on a path ahead of Nikon and Sony and with far more lenses than MFT. If they get ahead now they can stay ahead for awhile. Put out the best product they can, without intentional limitations, and they will succeed.