.Canon has actually released patents for 5 brand-new lens in Japan. The licenses were 1st submitted to the Oriental License Office in January 2023 as well as officially released today.
Wide-angle zooms.
2 of Canon's newly posted patents are actually of what are called portable wide-angle zoom lenses. The lens cover the zoom stables of 15-28 mm as well as 17-30 mm. Both lens additionally possess a continuous broad max eye of f/2.8. Canon actually makes 14-35 mm f/4 IS and also 15-35 mm f/2.8 is actually lens in its L-Series along with comparable central duration arrays. Given Canon's use the condition "sleek" to define these lens, it could be that the patents are going to ship much smaller or lighter lens.
Patent for a 17-30mm f/2.8 lense. Photo courtesy: Canon.
Telephoto zooms.
Canon's three various other new patents all associate with telephoto zoom lenses. The patents cover lens with the focal length stables of 70-300 mm, 300-600 mm as well as 400-600 mm. Like the wide-angle zoom licenses, the telephoto zoom lenses are actually designed to have a portable design. The 70-300 mm lens possesses a constant optimum eye of f/4. Having said that, the various other 2 lenses are actually revealed as having variable f/2.8 -4.5 max apertures.
License for a 300-600mm f/2.8 -4.5 lens. Picture courtesy: Canon.
Lens installs.
The patents deal with the visual concept of the lens and also do not show the lens install. Having said that, the most very likely possibility would be actually Canon's radio frequency install. Additionally, Kengo Iezuka, who looks after organizing lenses at Canon, provided a meeting about radio frequency lenses recently. During the meeting, Iezuka pointed out, "There are actually still numerous lenses that have actually not been discharged to the planet. I can't speak about the specifics, however there are actually lenses along with simple requirements, and lenses with specifications that have actually certainly never been found prior to and that no one can visualize yet.".
What we presume.
Until lately, Canon has actually avoided other producers coming from making radio frequency mount lenses. Right now the provider is starting to open the market to various other lense manufacturers, Canon needs to have to always keep introducing. The brand new licenses present that Analects is actually working doggedly to establish impressive brand new lenses for its own radio frequency mount cams. However, as regularly, where licenses are involved, it's also essential to remember that the method is carried out largely to guard technical advancement. The enrollment of a license does not consistently cause an item concerning market.