Canon RF 30-600mm Super Zoom appears in Patent Application

Richard CR · Oct 28, 2024

In this patent application (2024-152935), Canon is researching some RF-designed super zoom embodiments.

Canon RF 30-600mm Super Zoom appears in Patent Application

In this patent application (2024-152935), Canon is researching some RF-designed super zoom embodiments. For those dying on that hill where super crazy zooms do not need to exist, you can stop reading…

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koenkooi · Oct 28, 2024

You can get optically excellent superzooms from Canon, have a look at their broadcast lenses

GMCPhotographics · Oct 28, 2024

koenkooi said:
You can get optically excellent superzooms from Canon, have a look at their broadcast lenses

I was thinking exactly the same thing as I read this article. However, a 45mp stills image requires a far higher level of optical resolution compared to a lens optimised for 4K. Sure we have 8K now days, but this is relatively new.

It's a very interesting lens, not my wheel house, but an interesting lens for sure.

Zadak · Oct 28, 2024

Still waiting for a 1-2000mm lens

Billybob · Oct 28, 2024

Okay, I'm not dying on that hill, but I doubt that I would be in the market for this lens. Nonetheless, if this lens managed to be even decent and not too humongous, and not too dark

, it would be a great safari lens. Okay, that's not going to happen.

neuroanatomist · Oct 28, 2024

koenkooi said:
You can get optically excellent superzooms from Canon, have a look at their broadcast lenses

Looking at them is one thing, carrying them and affording them are quite different things.

This lens is 47 cm/18.5” at full extension, that’s a beast, even if not quite so beastly as Canon’s box lenses.

Canon Rumors · Oct 28, 2024

Well, we're getting closer to the 10-1000mm f/1.4.

Diko · Oct 28, 2024

Now that\'s what I call all-arounder!

Richard CR · Oct 28, 2024

koenkooi said:
You can get optically excellent superzooms from Canon, have a look at their broadcast lenses

i don't think i want to handhold those.

nor buy one.

Richard CR · Oct 28, 2024

Canon Rumors Guy said:
Well, we're getting closer to the 10-1000mm f/1.4.

pssh that was old specs. now it's 10-1000mm F1.0

DSB · Oct 28, 2024

Well, Canon does have full frame RF 100-500, which is 5x zoom and it's bloody excellent! Obviously, 20x range would definitively require much more compromises, but if the image quality was at least acceptable, I'm sure it would sell well. To be honest, 30-600 is perhaps a bit too ambitious, but something along the lines of old EF 28-300 doesn't seem outside of realm of possibility.

Doug7131 · Oct 28, 2024

koenkooi said:
You can get optically excellent superzooms from Canon, have a look at their broadcast lenses

Most super zooms/ field lenses are only designed to cover relatively tiny 2/3 sensors used in broadcast/ENG cameras. Full frame brings extra challenges especially at the wide end.

Skux · Oct 28, 2024

Sounds bonkers. I'm in.

Maximilian · Oct 29, 2024

Even with lower resolution sensors I was never a friend of those superzooms.
Still too big and too much of a compromise in IQ performance.

And now we have >20 MP sensors and not 8 MP.

That was not my idea of a lens when I bought an ILC system.

Zadak said:
Still waiting for a 1-2000mm lens

But it must be f/1.2 - if not f/1.0

mxwphoto · Oct 29, 2024

neuroanatomist said:
Looking at them is one thing, carrying them and affording them are quite different things.

This lens is 47 cm/18.5” at full extension, that’s a beast, even if not quite so beastly as Canon’s box lenses.

I was interested till I saw the length. This thing is as long as a 600 f4 at full extension and 2" longer than the 200-800! Same size as the 200-800 when retracted though. Doubt it would be lighter than 2kg as well. Not exactly a walk around lens.

Perhaps for soccer moms/dads on game day or birders who can get close?

If they made 30-600 f4-11 I think the size and weight would be more feasible as a walk around.

JMatt · Oct 29, 2024

It what universe is this a marketable lens? Sigma has a 150-600mm with a 95mm filter and f/6.3. I have one. It hasn't seen the light of day in years because we have other much better lenses at all of those focal lengths. Sigma also still sell the 50-500mm with an 86mm filter also offering f/6.3. These are walkabout vacation snapshot lenses.

They cost roughly $1,100 and $550 respectively. What would someone pay for an f/8, non-L 600mm lens? I don't see it worth more than $995. Most people on this forum would never be in the market for this lens, and the hobbyist tier photographers would just buy a Sigma. Frankly, most of them cannot understand why we have any of the "L" or "big white" lenses anyway.

Methinks this lens is a thought experiment that never sees first light.

neuroanatomist · Oct 29, 2024

JMatt said:
It what universe is this a marketable lens?

It's a patent. Only a very small fraction of optical formula patents become marketed lenses.

Del Paso · Oct 29, 2024

Zadak said:
Still waiting for a 1-2000mm lens

Just ask HarryFilm. He's got one!

AlanF · Oct 29, 2024

The Sigma 60-600mm is a very decent lens, if anything sharper than the 150-600mm Sport, and good on high pixel sensors. Weighs 5.5lb/2.5kg, however.

JMatt · Oct 29, 2024

neuroanatomist said:
It's a patent. Only a very small fraction of optical formula patents become marketed lenses.

Yup. That's exactly my conclusion in the final sentence I wrote. So I agree with you 100%.

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Canon RF 30-600mm Super Zoom appears in Patent Application

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