Canon filed a new patent for an RF 8mm f/4 circular fisheye lens: Focal length: 8.10 mm F-number: 4.00 Half angle of view: 90.84 Image height: 11.50 mm Lens length: 66.13 mm Back focus: 13.21 mm More Canon EOS RF mirrorless lens patents can be found here:
The latest Canon EOS RF mirrorless lens patents (part 2):
DJI has a new patent for an RC car with a gimbal and camera attached to it:
Tamron has a patent for 18mm f/1.8 and/or 20mm f/2.0 full-frame DSLR lenses: Focal length: 18.17 mm Fno: 1.87 Image height: 21.633 mm Back focus: 38.31867 mm
Remember the modular Fujifilm GFX mirrorless medium format camera prototype? FujiAddict got their hands on the desing patent drawings for that camera – maybe after all Fuji will make such camera one day… maybe? Via FujiAddict
NikonRumors has been reporting for a while rumors about a new Nikon Z APS-C based mirrorless camera potentially without an EVF (the EVF will probably be optional). Nikon recently filed a design patent in Japan for exactly the same camera.
Tamron has filed new patents for three full-frame DSLR lenses: Tamron 85mm f/1.4 Tamron 24-120mm f/4 Tamron 35mm f/1.8 (this patent could be for the alresdy existing Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD – the lens design looks identical)
Sigma filed patent P2019-23693A that appears to be for the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.2 Pro lens – see this comparison:
Panasonic has filed a new patent P2019-15827A for an 18mm f/4 mirrorless lens designed for APS-C based cameras. Could it be that Panasonic is working on a new mirrorless camera with L-mount? Leica already has two APS-C L-mount mirrorless cameras (Leica TL2 and Leica CL) and a few lenses. In an interview with Dpreview a […]
The latest patents from Sigma, Sony, Panasonic and Olympus:
Sigma has a new patent P2018-189733A for 12mm f/2.8 full-frame lens:
Tamron published a patent P2018-185489A for a 100-400mm f/5.6-8.3 MFT mirrorless lens. Tamron also has two new patents (P2018-169563A and P2018-169564A) that could be for new versions of the following lenses: 100-400mm f/4.5 – 6.3 Di VC USD 150-600 mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD
