by Richard | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
7Artisans is one of those Chinese lens manufacturers that have popped up in the last 10 or so years. I played around with 7Artisans on the EOS-M mount, and they were pretty fun bang-for-the-buck lenses, but quirky ergonomics. 7Artisans is known for its manual focus,...
by Richard | Sep 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
There are times I see a cool patent, and look at it and can’t for the life of me explain what it does. I still may have gotten this one wrong, but I don’t think so. I actually sat on this patent all weekend and even forced Craig into an Irish triple...
by Richard | Sep 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
In this patent application (2023-130885), Canon lists quite a few primes with a significant ingress, but also more notably a smaller image circle than what would normally be used for APS-C. For Canon APS-C, that’s 13.66mm, whereas all these lenses have 12.50mm....
by Richard | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the main complaints about using ultra-fast lenses is that you can’t use the lenses easily wide open in bright sunlight. This is especially true when it comes to video and the use of more limited shutter speeds. In this series of patent applications, Canon...
by Richard | Sep 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Canon has released two patent applications going into detail about using a grip as an active cooling device for our overworked and overheating camera systems. I’ve long thought that Canon could do a lot more with grips than add a few batteries and call it a day...
