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    Canon planning to replace focus rings with touch panels on the lens?
    Mar 19, 2021 John Aldred

    Canon has filed a pretty interesting looking patent at the Japan Patent Office. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it yet, but it…

    Canon has patented a bunch of fast(ish) portrait-length 70-100mm RF prime lenses
    Mar 12, 2021 John Aldred

    A new Canon patent application has popped up on the Japan Patent Office website detailing six new RF mount prime lenses ranging in focal length…

    A new patent suggests Canon’s eye-controlled focus may be coming back
    Feb 19, 2021 John Aldred

    For those who hear about the fact that Canon used to have 35mm SLRs with eye-controlled AF, but have never had the opportunity to try…

    Godox to release an updated “V1 Pro” round head speedlight with built-in cooling fan
    Jan 11, 2021 John Aldred

    This seems a little bit weird, but not an entirely unreasonable idea. Godox has filed a patent that looks very similar to the existing Godox…

    Canon has patented an Osmo gimbal-style camera with interchangeable lenses
    Dec 29, 2020 John Aldred

    This is pretty odd, but also kind of cool. Canon has patented (through no fewer than five separate patents) a strange DJI Osmo-like gimbal with…

    Canon comes up with a shutter button like no shutter button before it
    Dec 20, 2020 Udi Tirosh

    There are many kinds of cameras: DSLRs, point and shoot, mirrorless, even that weird Sony F707 from when DSLRs started. But one thing almost never…

    Canon has patented a strange-but-cool zoomable 1-2x teleconverter
    Dec 11, 2020 John Aldred

    Well, this is an interesting idea, and pretty unique, too. Canon has patented a zoomable teleconverter. You know, those things that effectively increase the focal…

    Canon patents a Dual Pixel AF Back-side Illuminated sensor (finally)
    Dec 10, 2020 John Aldred

    It’s taken a while for Canon to jump on the whole BSI train, although the company appears to have filed a patent in for what…

    Canon patents four RF mount cinema zoom lenses
    Dec 5, 2020 John Aldred

    A new patent discovered by the folks at Canon News seems to suggest that Canon’s been working on some RF mount cinema zoom lenses. What…

    Yongnuo is developing another weird camera and this time it’s “modular”
    Nov 30, 2020 John Aldred

    Modular cameras are not a new idea, but as the world switched from film to digital, modular systems mostly disappeared for photographers – unless you…