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Simple fact: What most people who consider mirrorless are after is size and weight reduction. According to Canon's execs, they view that as one of the things against FF mirrorless (read it in interviews). Then to say, just make a FF mirrorless with the size of a DSLR and the lenses of a DSLR, that makes very little sense.

 

The 6D on its own sells in bigger numbers than all the FF mirrorless cameras. Canon of course will not decide to not make an affordable FF DSLR to follow up on the 6D.

 

If Canon is going to make a FF mirrorless camera, it will NOT be a 6D mkII. If they develop one, it will be one which can have the size advantage (so with a shorter flange distance, and at least a few compact mirrorless primes). And of course, EOS DSLR lenses can then be used with an extension tube just like the EOS-M range does.

 

To give an idea on the size of the market for FF mirrorless at the moment... The newest data from the Japanese market shows that for mirrorless, Olympus is at nr 1 position with 26.8%. The camera maker with the smallest mirrorless concept (disregarding silly small like Nikon and Pentax sensor size) has by far the biggest market share. At nr 2: Canon, with 18.5%. Canon who only sells small APS-C mirrorless with small lenses. Sony takes position nr 3 (17.9%), with a combination of APS-C and FF mirrorless.

 

Most of the market (in Japan at least) is price conscious. Sony going expensive with FF and even with the new APS-C models does not help their sales numbers (24.8% to 17.9% in 1 year).

 

Again, this is only the Japanese market.