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Panasonic patents new 70-200mm, 70-300mm and 100-400mm full-frame zoom lenses
Mar 9, 2022
John Aldred
If there’s one thing Panasonic’s famous for, it’s inexpensive full-frame lenses. Oh, wait, no, the other one. They’re not famous for inexpensive full-frame lenses. The L…
New Sigma patent shows design for a 28-70mm f/2 full-frame mirrorless lens
Mar 4, 2022
John Aldred
A new patent suggests that Sigma might have a few new exciting lenses on the way soon for mirrorless cameras. The patent describes six lenses, including…
New patent shows Canon still working on Quad Pixel Autofocus
Jan 14, 2022
John Aldred
Since the announcement of Canon’s Dual Pixel Autofocus system, introduced with the Canon EOS 70D, we kind of knew that Quad Pixel Autofocus would be…
Canon patents zoom lenses that get shorter as they get longer
Nov 19, 2021
John Aldred
Well, this is a bit counterintuitive. Spotted by asobinet, Canon has patented a mechanism for a zoom lens mechanism that actually gets shorter as you…
Ricoh files new lens patents – Is Pentax finally considering going mirrorless?
Oct 20, 2021
John Aldred
A few days ago, Ricoh filed a patent application in Japan for three new full-frame telephoto lenses, one of which is for mirrorless cameras. These…
Nikon files patents for two crazy f/1.2 zooms that will probably never be made
Oct 16, 2021
John Aldred
Well, if this isn’t a bit of humble-bragging, I’m not sure what is. Nikon has filed a new patent that describes Nikkor Z 35-50mm f/1.2…
Patent suggests Olympus wants to become astrophotography king with new “astrotracer” feature
Oct 1, 2021
John Aldred
Well, this is interesting. It seems that Olympus (AKA OM Digital) might be looking towards the stars. A new Japanese patent describes a new Micro…
Canon’s new patent shows a mirrorless camera with a pass-through integrated grip
Aug 13, 2021
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Canon has filed a new patent in Japan that shows a pretty unusual mirrorless camera body. It comes with an integrated grip with a pass-through,…
Canon patent shows a shutter-like mechanical barrier to protect your mirrorless sensor
Jul 29, 2021
John Aldred
One of the great things about DSLRs was that the shutter was closed and the mirror was down when you weren’t actively shooting a photo….
Canon patents reveal some info about eye-controlled AF coming in the EOS R3
Apr 30, 2021
John Aldred
Made famous with 35mm SLR cameras like the EOS 3 and EOS 5 (A2/A2e in the USA), Canon’s eye-controlled autofocus system has been sorely missed…