Patent: Canon Macro Ring Flash

[Canon Rumors]

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A patent for what appears to be a new Canon ring flash has appeared.

We may see a new ring flash with the new macro lens in 2014. We’ve heard about the possibility of a zoom macro lens, but we can’t confirm the information at this time.

• Patent Publication No. 2014-13350
  
  
  
  • Publication date 2014.1.23
  
  
  • Filing date 2012.7.5
  
  
  
  


• Existing ring strobe
  
  
  
  • Xenon tube
  
  
  • Process to bend the arc shaped glass tube cylindrical difficult
  
  
  
  


• Canon patents
  
  
  
  • There are two areas in light of the strobe
  
  
  • Light flux from the first region is subject to direct
  
  
  • Toward the object light beam from the second zone enters the prism, and then reflected inside
  
  
  • Provided with a step stepped on the reflecting surface, by changing the pitch of the step, it is possible to adjust the distance between the emission point
  
  
  
  

Source; [EG]

cr

[Viggo]

Year of the patents!

[monkeyhand]

Ugh, wires.  I wish we could get Nikon's system, the one place it beats Canon in macro... then again I never priced their system.  In any case this could mean a nice cheap macro flash clearance before the new release.

[verysimplejason]

Ugh, wires.  I wish we could get Nikon's system, the one place it beats Canon in macro... then again I never priced their system.  In any case this could mean a nice cheap macro flash clearance before the new release.

Nikon does have a comparable mpe65 lens?

[privatebydesign]

Ugh, wires.  I wish we could get Nikon's system, the one place it beats Canon in macro... then again I never priced their system.  In any case this could mean a nice cheap macro flash clearance before the new release.

I'm not sure I agree with you there, you can fake the R1C1 in a Canon system with an ST-E2 and a couple of 430's, or, if you have a 7D or later controller pop up flash, a 90EX and a 430EX MkII. However the MT-24EX has the same control as the base R1C1. You can add more SB-R200's to the Nikon but you effectively end up with a ringlight and use all your groups, a look that is better achieved with the SB29, which itself is no match for the Canon MR-14X as the Canon is a true ringlight with two adjustable tubes.

Don't really see the criticism of a cable from hotshoe mounted power/controller to lens mounted heads is very valid in a macro shooting environment though, for sure I'd take Canon's macro lens selection over Nikon's any day.

[monkeyhand]

Ugh, wires.  I wish we could get Nikon's system, the one place it beats Canon in macro... then again I never priced their system.  In any case this could mean a nice cheap macro flash clearance before the new release.

Nikon does have a comparable mpe65 lens?

Nope, that's why I went Canon.

Good points on the work around private.

[Marsu42]

... with the new macro lens in 2014 ...

I didn't hear that before - is that a [CR0] or even more substantiated? My opinion: 180L-IS! 180L-IS! 180L-IS! ...

[slclick]

... with the new macro lens in 2014 ...

I didn't hear that before - is that a [CR0] or even more substantiated? My opinion: 180L-IS! 180L-IS! 180L-IS! ...

I'd love to see another >1x lens, possibly a 1x-3x MP-E 90