Canon Patent Application: Fast Focusing Prime lenses

In this patent application, Japan Patent Application 2023-120952 Canon discusses developing lenses for video, surveillance, and stills photography that have very quick autofocus. The method they use for this is reducing the weight of the focus group to allow for...

Canon Patent Application: Miniaturization of built-in teleconverter

In this Japan Patent Application, JP 2023-118490, Canon is investigating creating smaller built in teleconverters for use in lenses that we would normally not expect to see a teleconverter installed in. The idea of this patent application is to make the mechanism and...

BCN Lens Sale Rankings for the First Half of 2023

BCN has released its lens rankings for the first half of 2023. Just in case you don’t know, BCN is a sales tracking company in Japan. They track well over 50% of all sales in Japan and assemble the results for us. So this data is quite indicative of the Japanese...

BCN Lens Sale Rankings for the First Half of 2023

BCN has released its lens rankings for the first half of 2023. Just in case you don’t know, BCN is a sales tracking company in Japan. They track well over 50% of all sales in Japan and assemble the results for us. So this data is quite indicative of the Japanese...

Opinion: The difficulty facing Canon (and everyone else)

We’d like to welcome Richard to the fold at Canon Rumors, one of two new writers that you will see here at Canon Rumors. You may remember Richard from his time running and writing at Canon News. The financial overlords have finally started to move forward with...