Patent: Canon Macro Ring Flash

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<p>A patent for what appears to be a new Canon ring flash has appeared.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<ul>
<li><span>Patent Publication No. 2014-13350</span>
<ul>
<li><span>Publication date 2014.1.23</span></li>
<li><span>Filing date 2012.7.5</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span>Existing </span><a href="http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/tag/Flash"><span>ring strobe</span></a>
<ul>
<li><span>Xenon tube</span></li>
<li><span>Process to bend the arc shaped glass tube cylindrical difficult</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/tag/Canon"><span>Canon</span></a><span> patents</span>
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<li><span>There are two areas in light of the strobe</span></li>
<li><span>Light flux from the first region is subject to direct</span></li>
<li><span>Toward the object light beam from the second zone enters the prism, and then reflected inside</span></li>
<li><span>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</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
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<p>Source; [<a href="http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2014-01-29" target="_blank">EG</a>]</p>
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monkeyhand said:
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.
 
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verysimplejason said:
monkeyhand said:
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.
 
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