Patent Application: Kit Zooms for both RF-S and RF

[Richard-CN]

In this patent application (2024-173039), Canon talks about a few interesting wide-angle zoom lenses and one design, which I've seen a lot over the RF years and have wanted Canon to do. For me, a 17-70 or equivalent full-frame lens would be a “shut up and take my money” kind of lens as long as

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[Aldherrian]

It's nice seeing some signs of research around bigger focal range in lenses that would be suitable for standard APSC zooms like the 17-65.

But I have to say I would hope for better aperture, biased by the look at the Tamron 17-70 2.8

We'll see what comes at the production step