Canon Researches More High Quality Zooms

[Richard-CN]

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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[Maximilian]

Interesting patents.

@Richard CR:
Please check the numbers in the first table. FL says 206.0 mm at the wide end. That must be a typo.
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[td]Focal Length[/td][td]206.00 [/td][td]85.04[/td][td]145.50[/td]
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I couldn't find the numbers in the patent in a quick search. So I cannot offer the correct ones.

 

[riker]

For travel I need a 100-300/4 which performs optically to serve my R5m2.

Fot events, concerts and stuff, 50-150, 70-150, whatever is fine, but 2.8 is just often too slow (especially on concerts).
I'm using 24/1.4 (sigma), 35/1.8, 50/1.8, 135/1.8 but I'm pretty fed up with always needing to change.
(Current 28-70 is just too heavy and what makes it even worse is that it's nose-heavy, very unbalanced to hold.)

 

[Exploreshootshare]

I hope Canon doesn't release a 50-150mm F2.8 L while Sony just released a F2 version of it. I believe the next zoom will be the rumored 200-500mm (or was ist 600mm?). After that Canon should imo release:
- 70-180mm F2.8 STM (or similiar)
- 70-150mm F2 which weighs less than Sonys offering. If not, make it 50-150mm
- 24-300mm L superzoom (or similar)

In one thread there was a rumor about a wild UWA zoom. Maybe a 14-28mm F2? I don´t know, I don't believe it is imminent.

After that, we´d need mkii of:
- 28-70mm F2 (give a big fat diet)
- 24-70mm F2.8 (put it on a diet, improve it like Nikon did, fb compensation, make it faster... maybe it the version rumored lately to feature VCM motors)
- maybe 15-35mm F2.8 mkii (see above)

 

[AlanF]

Interesting patents.

@Richard CR:
Please check the numbers in the first table. FL says 206.0 mm at the wide end. That must be a typo.
[TR]
[td]Focal Length[/td][td]206.00 [/td][td]85.04[/td][td]145.50[/td]
[/TR]
I couldn't find the numbers in the patent in a quick search. So I cannot offer the correct ones.

It's about 60mm according to the half-angle of view.

 

[Eloniel]

I hope Canon doesn't release a 50-150mm F2.8 L while Sony just released a F2 version of it. I believe the next zoom will be the rumored 200-500mm (or was ist 600mm?). After that Canon should imo release:
- 70-180mm F2.8 STM (or similiar)
- 70-150mm F2 which weighs less than Sonys offering. If not, make it 50-150mm
- 24-300mm L superzoom (or similar)

In one thread there was a rumor about a wild UWA zoom. Maybe a 14-28mm F2? I don´t know, I don't believe it is imminent.

After that, we´d need mkii of:
- 28-70mm F2 (give a big fat diet)
- 24-70mm F2.8 (put it on a diet, improve it like Nikon did, fb compensation, make it faster... maybe it the version rumored lately to feature VCM motors)
- maybe 15-35mm F2.8 mkii (see above)

I'm currently waiting for a holy trinity of f2.0 zooms for buying RF lenses, ideally in this order and internal zoom.

• 50-150 f2.0, starting at 70mm would make it significantly less useful. Ideally I would even prefer if it could start at 35mm like a 35-135mm to skip the 28-70.
• 15-30mm f2.0 or even 16-35mm f2.0 for using as both a Landscape and street photo beast.
• 28-70 f2.0 MK2 or even better 24-70 f2.0

When you see the 50-150 f2.0 from Sony and 35-150 f2.0-2.8 from Tamron Canon has to release something to compete against it. And I can't see them having years and years to do it. Especially as it's a very useful lens for wedding photographers.