.Canon has published patents for five brand new lenses in Japan. The licenses were actually first accepted the Eastern Patent Workplace in January 2023 and also officially published today.
Wide-angle zooms.
2 of Canon's freshly published licenses are actually of what are referred to as portable wide-angle zoom lens. The lens deal with the zoom varieties of 15-28 mm and 17-30 mm. Each lens additionally have a constant broad maximum aperture of f/2.8. Canon already helps make 14-35 mm f/4 is actually and 15-35 mm f/2.8 is actually lens in its L-Series with similar central duration assortments. Provided Canon's use the condition "small" to explain these lens, maybe that the patents will provide smaller sized or even lighter lenses.
License for a 17-30mm f/2.8 lense. Picture politeness: Canon.
Telephoto zooms.
Canon's three various other brand-new patents all associate with telephoto zoom lenses. The licenses deal with lenses with the focal duration ranges of 70-300 mm, 300-600 mm and 400-600 mm. Like the wide-angle zoom licenses, the telephoto zoom lenses are actually created to have a small layout. The 70-300 mm lense possesses a steady max eye of f/4. However, the various other two lens are actually revealed as possessing adjustable f/2.8 -4.5 optimum apertures.
License for a 300-600mm f/2.8 -4.5 lense. Picture good behavior: Canon.
Lense installs.
The patents deal with the visual concept of the lens as well as do not signify the lens install. Nonetheless, the best probably alternative would certainly be Canon's RF mount. Furthermore, Kengo Iezuka, that looks after preparing lenses at Canon, gave an interview regarding radio frequency lenses just recently. In the course of the interview, Iezuka said, "There are actually still several lens that have actually certainly not been actually launched to the world. I can't talk about the specifics, but there are actually lens with simple requirements, as well as lenses with requirements that have never ever been seen before which no one may picture yet.".
What we think.
Up until recently, Canon has avoided various other makers from creating radio frequency position lens. Currently the company is beginning to open up the marketplace to other lense makers, Canon needs to keep introducing. The brand new licenses show that Canon is actually working hard to establish impressive brand new lens for its own RF mount electronic cameras. However, as constantly, where patents are actually worried, it is actually also crucial to consider that the method is actually done mainly to protect technological advancement. The sign up of a license doesn't always result in a product concerning market.