Canon’s PowerShot ZOOM Gets A Silver Award At DFA Design Asia Awards 2021

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Canon’s concept camera with a huge optical zoom, the Powershot ZOOM, got a price: Silver Award at DFA Designa Asia.

Canon PowerShot ZOOM at a glance:

  • 12.1MP CMOS Sensor
  • 100-400mm Equivalent Optical Zoom
  • One-Touch Switchable Zoom
  • Full HD 1080p Video at 30 fps
  • Optical Image Stabilization
  • 2.36m-Dot Electronic Viewfinder
  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Connectivity
  • 2x Digital Zoom, 800mm Equivalent
  • USB Type-C Port, microSD Card Slot

Canon press release:

Canon’s PowerShot ZOOM wins Silver Award at DFA Design for Asia Awards 2021

TOKYO, November 1, 2021—Canon Inc. announced today that the company’s PowerShot ZOOM was recognized for design excellence by the Hong Kong Design Centre, winning the Silver Award at the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2021.

The Silver Award winning PowerShot ZOOM is a new kind of concept telephoto camera that enables users to enjoy viewing a variety of scenes, including sports matches, birdwatching, vacation and children’s sports events and capture their favorite moments. Combining features from binoculars, digital cameras and video cameras, the PowerShot ZOOM is capable of photography at focal lengths of 100 mm and 400 mm, as well as super-telephoto shooting at 800 mm1 using digital zoom.

The PowerShot ZOOM is realizes a slick rectangular design that allows users to easily hold the device in either hand. Users can cycle between the three focal lengths simply by pressing the “ZOOM” button on the top of the device while looking through the viewfinder. What’s more, the device features a compact and lightweight palm-size design weighing only approximately 145g2, allowing it to be easily stored in pants pockets and other narrow spaces.

Canon has participated in the DFA Design for Asia Awards since 2013, having thus far won awards for such products as its Cinema EOS System professional cinematography equipment, video camcorders, cameras and interchangeable lenses. Encouraged by this latest industry recognition, Canon will continue striving to create products that combine the highest levels of performance and design excellence.

About the DFA Design for Asia Awards

Launched in 2003 and organized by the Hong Kong Design Centre, the DFA Design for Asia Awards has honored product designs that focus on sustainability and higher quality of life for people in the Asian market, which comprises half of the global population. The awards aim to increase the presence of such designs among the international business community as well as consumers throughout the region.

  • 135mm film equivalent.
  • 2Including memory card and built-in battery. Based on CIPA standards.

New Canon EOS R5 Firmware Coming Soon?

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It seems Canon might soon release a new Canon EOS R5 firmware update.

Rumor has it Canon might release a new Canon EOS R5 firmware around November 26, the day the EOS R3 should start shipping.

Don’t expect anything earthshaking. Most likely the firmware update will bring support for the new Canon RF 5.2mm f/2.8L dual fisheye lens and the usual bug fixes.

Stay tuned…

Canon Patent: RF 70-200mm f/2.8L (not the already released lens)

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A new Canon patent application, once more for a lens for the RF mount. The patent application might appear to point to an already released lens but it is not.

Canon patent application 2021-173892 (Japan) discusses optical formulas for what seems to be a RF 70-200mm f/2.8L lens. However, as asobinet.com points out, the patent does not refer to the already released RF 70-200mm f/2.8L. The lens described in the patent seems to have an entirely different optical design.

Embodiment:

  • Focal length: 73.00-195.00
  • F value: 2.88
  • Half angle of view: 16.51-6.33
  • Image height: 21.64
  • Overall length: 178.20-216.21
  • Back focus: 19.12-33.67

More Canon patent applications are listed here. Some particularly interesting patent applications we think might get into production are these:

A Few More Bits About The Rumored Canon EOS R1

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Shortly after we got the Canon EOS R1 rumor there was more stuff that surfaced from the interweb of rumor mills.

We were told that the Canon EOS R1 might get released in Q3 2022, and that it will “let all competitors behind” (whatever that means). Over there at Canon Rumors they got a few more bits immediately after we posted our rumor. Here are the new bits:

  • Global shutter? Despite being on the wishlist of many, it seems once more it was a hoax. No global shutter on the EOS R1.
  • Where is the EOS R1 positioned? According to a source, the R1 is “A jack of all trades, and a master of none. Except that it will be a master of everything.” (whatever that means(
  • Is the EOS R1 ready? Not yet, apparently. It seems some of the EOS R3 feedback will go into the EOS R1
  • How many megapixel will it have? More than the EOS R3 but no one knows yet how many. Might well be above the 45MP of the EOS R5.
  • Video? Most likely it will have 8K video on board
  • What about the price? Moe than the EOS R3 but less than $10,000.

As you can see, no real beef on the fire here. Sound more like educated speculation than specification to us. Time will tell.

Stay tuned…

Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS Review (highly recommended)

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Here is a Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS review. The RF 100mm Macro is one of the recently released lenses for the EOS R system.

At a glance:

  • RF-Mount Lens/Full-Frame Format
  • 1.4x Magnification with Autofocus
  • Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/32
  • Minimum Focusing Distance: 10.2″
  • Super Spectra Coating
  • Smooth and Quiet Auto Focus
  • Optical Image Stabilization; Hybrid IS
  • Control Ring for Direct Setting Changes
  • 9-Blade Diaphragm
  • Weather-Sealed Construction

Photography Blog posted their exhaustive Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS review. They seem to be rather fond of the lens. They gave the lens a “highly recommended” and a 4.5/5 rating. From their conclusion:

The Canon RF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM is a superb macro lens boasting class-leading magnification, outstanding sharpness, impeccable build quality and a unique Spherical Aberration Control ring.

It delivers outstanding sharpness at both the centre and edges of the frame throughout most of its aperture range, even performing brilliantly when shooting wide-open at f/2.8.

There’s some vignetting which requires you to stop down by at least 2 f-stops to prevent it completely, but there’s little evidence of chromatic aberrations. Distortion is very well controlled even when shooting in the RAW format when the camera body doesn’t apply any automatic corrections.

More coverage of this very interesting lens is listed here.

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Canon EOS R1 To Be Released In Q3 2022, Will Let “all competitors behind”

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A new, fresh rumor about the Canon EOS R1, a not yet released Canon mirrorless camera.

According to our source, the Canon EOS R1 might be released around Q3 2022. Not much has been told to us about the specifications. Just that the Canon EOS R1 will incorporate technology that will “let all competitors behind“. Whatever that means.

The Canon EOS R1 (moniker comes from the web, not official Canon name) will be Canon’s flagship full frame mirrorless camera. The next step after the already game changing EOS R3. No doubt left here that the EOS R1 will be another game changer in the industry.

Stay tuned, there is more to come soon…