.Canon has released licenses for 5 brand new lens in Asia. The licenses were actually 1st undergone the Japanese License Workplace in January 2023 and also officially posted recently.
Wide-angle zooms.
Two of Canon's newly published patents are actually of what are actually called small wide-angle zoom lens. The lens deal with the zoom series of 15-28 mm as well as 17-30 mm. Each lenses additionally possess a continual wide max aperture of f/2.8. Canon already helps make 14-35 mm f/4 is actually as well as 15-35 mm f/2.8 IS lens in its L-Series along with similar central length arrays. Provided Canon's use of the phrase "portable" to explain these lens, perhaps that the patents will offer much smaller or even lighter lens.
Patent for a 17-30mm f/2.8 lens. Image politeness: Canon.
Telephoto zooms.
Canon's 3 other brand-new patents all connect to telephoto zoom lens. The patents cover lenses along with the central length varieties of 70-300 mm, 300-600 mm as well as 400-600 mm. Like the wide-angle zoom patents, the telephoto zoom lens are actually made to possess a sleek design. The 70-300 mm lense possesses a continual max aperture of f/4. Having said that, the various other two lens are presented as having variable f/2.8 -4.5 maximum apertures.
Patent for a 300-600mm f/2.8 -4.5 lens. Picture courtesy: Canon.
Lens installs.
The licenses deal with the visual layout of the lens and also don't signify the lens mount. Nevertheless, the most probably possibility would certainly be actually Canon's radio frequency mount. Moreover, Kengo Iezuka, who manages preparing lenses at Canon, offered an interview about RF lens just recently. During the interview, Iezuka said, "There are still a lot of lens that have actually certainly not been actually released to the planet. I can not talk about the specifics, however there are actually lenses along with essential specifications, as well as lenses with requirements that have certainly never been actually seen prior to and also no one can easily imagine yet.".
What we presume.
Up until recently, Canon has prevented various other producers coming from bring in RF position lenses. Now the provider is actually beginning to open the market to other lense makers, Canon needs to have to keep introducing. The brand-new licenses reveal that Canon is actually striving to establish amazing new lens for its RF mount cameras. However, as regularly, where patents are actually concerned, it's additionally crucial to keep in mind that the method is done predominantly to protect technical advancement. The sign up of a license doesn't always lead to a product concerning market.