While their mirrorless bodies have received mixed responses, no one can accuse Canon of playing it safe when it comes to mirrorless lenses, and they're showing no signs of stopping, as patent documents have emerged showing a positively ludicrous lens design.
Canon Rumors is reporting that Canon recently filed a patent for a 50-80mm f/1.1 (no, that's not a typo) zoom lens for their mirrorless full frame mount. Of course, f/1.1 is a ridiculously wide maximum aperture for a prime lens, and it's entirely unheard of in a zoom lens. In fact, the widest full frame zoom lenses are the Sigma 24-35mm f/2 and the Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L; f/1.1 is approximately 1.72 stops faster than those. If the optical quality is there, photographers will essentially get a highly versatile portrait lens that offers both the classic headshot focal length and the half-body focal length.
Now, one has to remember, of course, that a patent is not the same as a product, and we see plenty of patents that never come to market. Nonetheless, Canon has shown that they can push the boundaries of design with the RF mount, and it's quite exciting to see that they're not slowing down.
I love carrying a camera around with my lens
(nah seriously this would be cool - wildly impractical, but so is the Noct-Nikkor for most people... both would be fun to use once or twice though)
Headline: “...Truly Insane...!” Taken literally, I disagree! Design experimentation is needed or their market will evaporate. What’s insane is the hours we spend pining for the Grail and never finding it!
Hey mark mark, do you need to put this in every article. We get it. 35mm is dead, like tomorrow. And next week everyone will be walking around with digital 8x10 view cameras, because phones have bested 5x7 large format. The horse is properly beaten. You can stop now.
Sounds like someone just got his first medium format camera, or at least really wants one. Everything you say is hogwash.
Or just blowing smoke where the sun doesn’t shine.
Your posts could possibly makes sense if they dealt with photographic reality rather than your obsession with the niche market that is MF........that incidentally has nothing whatsoever to do with the above article. I think it’s just more MF trolling on your part. You could do everyone a big favour if you went off and played with your MF of choice.
Sorry Marky mark, I really gotta say, I read all of Edisons posts, and went back and re read them, and I see zero "hate and offensive remarks" in any of his posts.
Perhaps you have a misunderstanding as to what hyperbole means?
"Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis. In poetry and oratory, it emphasizes, evokes strong feelings, and creates strong impressions. As a figure of speech, it is usually not meant to be taken literally."
As an example of hyperbole that you used, when you said "soon there will be no more 35mm cameras...." even though the industry trend for almost a hundred years now has been towards smaller and smaller sensors, not larger ones. I know you are going to jump on it, so I will say it first, when I said sensors, of course I also meant film, which is a sensor.
But, but, but... I thought they finally solved spherical aberration with just one element?
I'm glad I invested in all th 1.2 and 1.4 L primes. Gear announcements like this along with the 28-70mm f2 just roll off my back. I can get close enough or better. It's not zoom but I can deal with that. I never need to daydream what it would be like. G.A.S. evaded.
50-80 f/1.1 lens will never be manufactured with current lens technology. Constructing such a lens might be possible from physical stand point. However, practically it is not. Look at the size of new Canon RF primes: RF 50mm F/1.2 and 85mm f/1.2. Although they are prime lenses with max aperture of f/1.2, they are enormous.
Their 85mm f1.2 was one of my all-time favorite portrait lenses! That thing had a depth of field about an inch deep. Just killer! You could take one of those horrible "messy kitchen in the background" selfies that people post on social media, and it would look amazing.
Maybe they should put their time into making cameras that don't overheat instead of $4000 lenses that only a bodybuilder can carry.