Canon to announce an RF 85mm f/1.2L USM DS (Defocus Smoothing)

Last updated: February 12, 2019 7:32 am

Published: February 12, 2019

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It appears Canon has trademarked “DS” or defocus smoothing and that the feature will appear in an upcoming Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM DS.

It appears that we're going to see both an RF 85mm f/1.2L USM and an RF 85mm f/1.2L USM DS announced on Thursday.

You can see the “DS” labeling on one of the RF 85mm f/1.2L lenses

What is defocus smoothing? if we had to guess, it's likely a way to improve the look of out of focus areas or “bokeh”.

Anything that makes an 85mm f/1.2L bokeh even better is going to be pretty awesome.

There have been a lot of patents over the last few years for Canon lenses with apodization filters, which could be related to the Defocus Smoothing we're seeing here.

That would make RF 6 lenses to be announced on Thursday, we've been told as many as 8 are possible.

More to come….

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