Egami spotted a brand new Canon patent describing a massive 600mm f/5.6 IS lens deisgned for the EOS-M cameras. Just for fun this is what the EOS-M3 looks like on the 600mm f/4.0 II USM lens.
Egami spotted a brand new Canon patent describing a massive 600mm f/5.6 IS lens deisgned for the EOS-M cameras. Just for fun this is what the EOS-M3 looks like on the 600mm f/4.0 II USM lens.
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Sony! watch this and think about your lens lineup!!
Canon just patented 200-600 f4.8-5.6 for full frame, AND this 600mm f5.6 M mount apsc.
Sony still has absolutely nothing worthwhile in long lenses.
Sony only sees fit to make the most popula focal lengths to apeal the the most common users.
Until that changes Sony will never compete with real camera systems.
Only problem is , Canon has crappy sensors. It will never compete with real mirrorless systems.
Yes you are right, just counted and there are just 26 Sony E-mount lenses out there. When you compare that to the enormous, whooping 5 lenses for their mirrorless system. I understand that this is so much better, especially when a lens that maybe a few hundred people really want is there. Yes Canon mirrorless system is really and absolutely better!
(I wish Sony made some longer lenses,but on the other hand, with the A7rII we can now mount any Can on lens and have reasonably fast AF with them!
Something is definitely about to happen in the M line, to support development of such a lens. Perhaps a prosumer body (7D mk-III in M form)?
IT WILL PROB BE ABOUT A THIRD SHORTER to a half than your imagined mockup it is a stop slower than the f4 and is for the shrimpy apsc canon standard
except one minor fact.. it isn’t an EF-M patent?
o.O
does anyone actually verify this stuff before posting?
It’s a lens patent, and there are a few examples of different formulations, one of which would be for mirrorless, does it mean they intend to make one? No, but it is interesting that it was included in the examples, at the very least it means Canon is thinking more about mirrorless, and that’s a good thing.
not really. canon puts in all the possible embodiments of the optical formulation.
it’s how you protect your patent.
calling this as the MR called it as “Impressive Canon lens patent: 600mm f/5.6 for EOS-M mirrorless camera!”
is absurb.
Canon has already exhibited a “semi working” prototype of a 600mm f4 DO lens, which was much smaller than the 600mm f4 conventional telephoto shown here. So if this patent is for an f5.6, the lens would be even smaller than the 600mm f4 DO prototype.
http://www.canonwatch.com/canon-ef-600mm-f4-br-do-prototype-shown-at-canon-expo-2015/
There is not a single EOS-M owner on the planet that would pay $6K for a lens.