Canon Patent: Body Cap Lenses

In this patent application (2025-029311), Canon features some rather slow, but very small lenses. At first, I thought of these as pancakes and then doing something like maths, it became obvious that these are much smaller than pancake lenses. Just a refresher, when...

Canon RF-S 18-45mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM vs SIGMA 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN

This subject has come up a fair number of times, and we thought it would be good for our newer users just starting out to do a bit of a dive into the differences between these two lenses, which to those inexperienced in selecting lenses may look somewhat similar. In...

First Leaked Image of the Fujifilm GFX100RF

The first image of the upcoming GFX100RF, which will be Fujifilm’s newest medium format camera, which promises to be a fixed focal length rangefinder camera. This camera is one of the Fujifilm Wifi registrations that most likely happened recently. As far as the...

Canon Patent: Canon RF Supertelephoto Lenses with built in Extenders

In this patent application (2025-028297), Canon discusses super-telephoto prime lenses with built-in teleconverters. Unlike normal teleconverters, which you add to the end of the lens and the extender attaches between the lens and the camera, these insert optical...

Xiaomi Gives a Glimpse Into the Smartphone Camera Future

During CP+ and the announcement of the Xiaomi 15, including the very camera-styled Xiaomi 15 Ultra, they also talked about one of their concept phones. But first we should talk about what got us here. Sony QX and Olympus Air What Xiaomi showed off was something that...