Canon registers two more cameras — taking its unreleased total to five

Rumour. Canon has not announced any of these cameras. This story is based on regulatory registration filings reported by Canon Rumors and surfaced by Photo Rumors. Registrations confirm that products exist in some form; they say nothing about what they are. Canon has registered two more cameras with regulatory bodies in Asia, bringing the total number of registered but unreleased Canon cameras to five. For a company that has been comparatively quiet through the first half of the year, that is a substantial backlog waiting to be announced. What a registration actually tells you Manufacturers must register wireless-enabled devices with regulatory authorities before they can legally be sold, and those filings become public. They are among the more reliable pre-announcement signals available, because unlike a leaked spec sheet, a registration is a legal document filed by the company itself. What they do not tell you is anything useful about the...