Nikon has announced the NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/2.8 VR, which is Nikon’s first Z-mount APS-C (DX) zoom lens with a constant f/2.8 aperture. The Nikkor 16-50mm DX lens features a nine-blade aperture, optical image stabilization, and a customizable control ring. It also offers a minimum focus distance of 0.15m. Physically, the lens weighs 330g, […]

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LAOWA is extending their Probe Lens lineup with two zoom macro lenses and two new tubular designs.
It's getting more and more crazy!
But it seems there is a market for such extraordinary lenses with high prizes.
The complet set is at 21 999$!

Laowa today has officially announced the Laowa AF 200mm FF 200m F2.0 C-Dreamer lens, the first Chinese manufacturer to make one of the big and fast halo lenses. Laowa touts several key advantages over its OEM and Sigma competition, including the size, weight, and price of the telephoto prime, with the Laowa lens being smaller, […]

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Canon UK have just had my R5 for the past couple of weeks and returned it with no fault found. I've just messaged them tonight and have copied the message below because I'm sure some of you with more knowledge of the R5 may be able to point me in the direction of a solution. I'm sure its something simple I'm missing......

"My camera has just been returned from repair under ticket number: XXXXXX and it has the same issue that I sent it with. It may be something simple that I am missing but the issue is that I suddenly started getting the Blue focal spot when using any lens (100, 24-105, 70-200). I have checked and double checked that I am in One Shot AF and I'm using AV mode, so I am definately not in Servo. I should be getting the green confirmation as I have done for the past 3 years. I haven't altered any other settings, to my knowledge and have tried resetting the camera - to no avail. I've also checked all the lenses are in AF and not MF. What else can it be please?"

Thank you for any advice.

During the recent Salon de la Photo 2025, held in Paris from October 9 to 12, Canon showed off its new products and discussed its market strategies in an interview with PhotoTrend.fr, a French photography publication. Marie Tranchimand, Marketing Director, Canon France Imaging Technologies & Communications Group (ITCG), discussed Canon’s performance, new products, and development […]

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As a familiar theme, Canon is on the outside looking in with yet another full-frame release. Though, as I was talking to Craig about this week, I’m starting to get a feeling I know what Canon is thinking. But more on that later. Sirui has announced the Aurora 35mm F1.4, a reasonably light, fast, weather-sealed […]

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I'm interested in purchasing a R5 and for the last couple weeks I've been watching prices on both new and refurbished and discovered prices increased $100+ over the last 2 weeks. The refurbished prices surprised me even more in that they were the same price as new. I'm waiting for Black Friday sales and hope there are great sales.

We now have the RF 20mm f1.4L VCM, RF 24mm f1.4L VCM, RF 35mm f1.4L VCM, RF 50mm f1.4L VCM and the RF 85 mm f1.4L VCM. What additional focal lengths would you like to see?

I think potentially we will get a 28mm and rumours abound about a 14mm. However I think Canon has an opportunity between 50mm and 85mm as many true cinema lens sets have either a 65mm or a 75mm (both Cooke & Ziess have produced these focal lengths). Canon is not known for anything between a 50mm & 85mm but it would give a more linear set.

I pre-ordered this very close to when it was announced. I was wondering if anyone else having a hard time getting a copy of this lens. I looked on Adorama and BNH, adorama says it won't be available till December. Kinda curious to why the availability is super low.

I remember when Canon released its TS-E 17mm F4L; that front optical assembly was something to behold, and it surprised the industry with a full-frame tilt-shift lens that no one really thought possible at the time. It took a few years for Canon to finally flex its optical muscle with wide-angle lenses and deliver excellent […]

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One of the fun things doing this is analyzing potato images of unreleased products. This doesn’t happen as much as it used to, but it’s happening today! What do we see? I have spent far too long looking at this image and have convinced myself that it is not an APS-C camera such as the […]

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All the talk recently has been about the upcoming Canon EOS R6 Mark III, and that release has the Canon world excited to see what Canon comes up with. I gave my thoughts on things that I’d like to see earlier this week. The Canon EOS R7 has been a very popular APS-C camera for […]

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A flurry of patent applications were released to the public, and instead of creating 4-5 articles about each one it made more sense to combine everything. So here we go. This has been probably the largest flurry of lens patent applications I’ve seen in a long time. Super Telephoto Zooms Canon had published two applications […]

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In this patent application (2025-149754) we see some interesting primes that Canon is applying for a patent. Now while it’s unusual to see a patent application before the lens is released, it does happen. As well, with this year being a hot mess in terms of planning it could be that alot of things were […]

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Is the R10 the best we’re going to get? How does this compare to the R50V? I don’t really need video so it seems silly to get such a video centric unit. But I want something small and compact for traveling with the family. I’ll probably keep the 28mm on it most of the time for ultimate portability.

All signs are pointing to the Canon EOS R6 Mark III being announced in the next couple of months. This camera will be a huge release for Canon and will likely sell extremely well, now and into the future. There have been a few specifications rumors in the past, but they were a long time […]

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I had something strange happen today and wondered if anyone else has had this happen. After using two different search engines I could not find anything similar.

Had my EOS R7 out yesterday with a relatively new, fully charged OEM Canon LP-E6NH battery. Took one hour of 1080p/24 video. Once finished I checked battery level, remaining power showed 60%.

This afternoon I took about 10 minutes of video using the same settings and about a dozen stills. I didn't check battery level but after turning camera off I noticed the bottom of the camera was warm. At that point I had not used it in about 20 minutes. That seemed strange. I put the camera back in its case (a padded shoulder carrier bag), put it in my truck and drove home. Half hour later I got home, took it out of the camera bag and the entire camera was VERY warm. Camera power switch was still in the off position.

I turned the camera on and got a big red "charge or replace battery before continuing" notice on LCD screen, and the battery was completely drained.

- camera was and still is in airplane mode
- no wireless or bluetooth enabled

I'm trying to recharge that battery now and see if its recharge performance reading in-camera is still good and if it still functions, but this was strange and not sure what to make of it. Thanks all for any advice.

The shipments from Japan this year have been somewhat puzzling, driven by the narrative and uncertainty surrounding the tariffs imposed by the United States across multiple industries. I long thought that the Japanese companies were working overtime and moving cameras everywhere, being completely unsure about what would happen this year. The first month of this […]

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Now and then, I read a lens patent and realize that it’s never going to be released in the real world, or it’s not even for our cameras – but I find the patent application so incredibly interesting that I just have to babble about it. This is one of them. For a long time, […]

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The Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM Lens wasn’t a well loved lens. As a matter of fact, there were probably more “why’s” than “ohhhh” when it was announced. However, there is a use case for this lens, when you need a lens that will prop up your tank, and be able to go from […]

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@Richard CR , starting this thread since there currently isn't one attached to your recent Industry News post:

A couple of issues in the article:

The 100mm Macro lens has been a staple across nearly every original equipment manufacturer since the film days. And outside of notable inclusions, such as Canon’s own Canon EF 100mm F2.8L IS USM, which features a specially designed image stabilization that actually works at near macro close focusing distances, and Sony’s STF (smooth trans focus) that improved the bokeh characteristics while sacrificing some light, the amount of innovation has been relatively underwhelming.

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Sony's STF lens is not really a macro. It will do 1:4 (0.25x) but it wasn't intended as a full macro lens like the 90/2.8G that does 1:1 and is the predecessor of the new 100/2.8GM macro.

However, that’s until Sony decided to rewrite the rules on what a 100mm macro should be. As with most Sony GM lenses, the Sony 100mm f/2.8 Macro GM features dual linear focus motors

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It's quad motors, two per focus group. Sony claims AF is 1.9x faster than the 90/2.8G lens. And yes, it supports up to 120fps which is a big improvement over the 15fps that the 90/2.8G supported.

Out of the box, the lens is a 1.4x macro, which is unheard of. However, Sony wasn’t done making this lens teleconvertor-friendly, allowing it to increase the reproduction to 2.8x when a teleconvertor is added.

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Canon's own RF 100/2.8L IS Macro does 1.4x (1.4:1), but it does not support teleconverters.

The Sony lens does 1.4x (1.4:1) but can take a 1.4x TC to increase magnification to 2x (2:1), or the 2x TC which results in 2.8x (2.8:1) magnification. I would expect the 1.4x TC to provide superb image quality but there will probably be some degree of degradation with the 2x.

Competition is great for everyone.

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For sure!

Now, I have personally been one to want an ultra-portable camera system and have whined about it continually. Now that Canon has finally listened to me and released the R50 V, I have to find something else to complain about. Therefore, this topic is of great interest to me, but not only did I want […]

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I was totally impressed with the Canon RF 85mm f/1.4L VCM when I dived into its MTF graphs supplied by Canon. You can read our Canon 85mm MTF showdown to delve deeper into that topic. Basically, I summarized the Canon RF85mm f/1.4L VCM that as; The Canon RF 85mm F1.4 VCM looks *that* good as most of […]

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The internet seems to be abuzz with some Leica rumors. Yes, I know this is Canon Rumors, but who doesn’t want to drool over the latest Leica camera, or snort with derision and wonder why people spend an ungodly amount of money on that red dot. Leica Q3 Monochrom First up is the Q3 Monochrom, […]

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We reported a couple of weeks back that Canon would be releasing two more VCM lenses, and that at least one of them would not be f/1.4L like the current lineup of 5 lenses. This makes sense, especially if they go wider than 20mm or longer than 85mm. Whining To stay consistent with my decade […]

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