.Canon has published licenses for 5 brand new lenses in Japan. The licenses were actually 1st undergone the Japanese Patent Workplace in January 2023 as well as formally released this week.
Wide-angle zooms.
2 of Canon's newly released licenses are for what are referred to as compact wide-angle zoom lenses. The lenses cover the zoom varieties of 15-28 mm as well as 17-30 mm. Both lenses likewise have a continuous wide optimum eye of f/2.8. Canon currently helps make 14-35 mm f/4 IS and also 15-35 mm f/2.8 IS lenses in its own L-Series along with identical focal size variations. Given Canon's use of the condition "sleek" to explain these lenses, perhaps that the patents will give smaller sized or lighter lenses.
License for a 17-30mm f/2.8 lense. Graphic courtesy: Canon.
Telephoto zooms.
Canon's three various other new patents all associate with telephoto zoom lenses. The patents cover lenses along with the focal span ranges of 70-300 mm, 300-600 mm and 400-600 mm. Similar to the wide-angle zoom licenses, the telephoto zoom lens are made to have a small style. The 70-300 mm lense has a continuous optimum aperture of f/4. However, the other 2 lenses are revealed as having adjustable f/2.8 -4.5 maximum eyes.
License for a 300-600mm f/2.8 -4.5 lens. Photo courtesy: Canon.
Lense installs.
The patents cover the optical layout of the lens as well as don't suggest the lens install. Nonetheless, one of the most probably possibility will be actually Canon's radio frequency install. Moreover, Kengo Iezuka, that manages preparation lens at Canon, offered a job interview about RF lens just recently. In the course of the interview, Iezuka mentioned, "There are actually still lots of lenses that have certainly not been actually launched to the globe. I can not refer to the specifics, however there are lenses with general specifications, and also lens with requirements that have actually never ever been actually found prior to and also nobody can imagine yet.".
What our experts assume.
Until lately, Canon has actually stopped other manufacturers coming from bring in radio frequency install lens. Currently the business is beginning to open the market to various other lens manufacturers, Canon needs to keep innovating. The brand new patents show that Library is actually working doggedly to establish exciting new lenses for its own radio frequency install cams. Having said that, as always, where patents are actually concerned, it is actually likewise crucial to remember that the process is actually performed mainly to guard technical advancement. The sign up of a patent does not always lead to a product coming to market.