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Here we are. The first image of the upcoming Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS III lens leaked over at Nokishita.
We expect Canon to announce the EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS III along with the EF 70-200mm f/4L IS II on next Thursday or Friday.
Stay tuned!
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After a long row of rumors we finally have a solid confirmation. Canon will announce two new L lenses this week.
One lens is the EF 70-200mm f/4L II, which indeed was due for a replacement. The other lens comes as a surprise. It’s the new version of one of the most popular Canon L lenses among professionals, the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L III.
While we have no exact date for the announcement, we can, based on Canon’s announcement patterns, expect both lenses to be announced either Thursday or Friday of this week (that’s June 7 or 8, 2018, depends also where you geographically are).
[via Nokishita]
All pictures © Bastiaan Ekeler, used with permission.
I love hacking projects like this. They may be useless for some people but I think they are way cool.
Photographer Bastiaan Ekeler designed and 3D printed a Canon EF mount adapter to fit a Canon telephoto lens on a Game Boy. It’s the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 with a Canon 1.4x extender.
As Bastiaan sums it up:
I designed and built a Canon EF Mount for my Game Boy Camera. The GBC has a sensor size of about 3.6mm² which seems equivalent to a 1/4″ sensor (Wikipedia). This gives the GBC a crop factor of about 10.81. With my 70-200 f4 mounted on a 1.4x extender, this gives me a max equivalent focal distance of about 200×1.4×10.81=3,026.8mm.
The lens adapter was designed in Rhinoceros 3D and printer on a Monoprice Select Mini v2 in black PLA at a pretty rough layer height (for speed). Minimal supports and cleanup are required to make the lens fit semi-snugly. The GBC sensor PCB screws into the back of the 3D print and with a little cutting and filing, the whole things mounts onto the partly-disassembled GBC, all with the original hardware. If there is enough interest, I might make some modifications to the 3D model and post it on Thingiverse for others to print and experiment with.
[…]Fun fact, this combination gives me almost the exact focal length to get the moon to fill the tiny 128×112px frame. Shooting the moon handheld with a ~3000mm equivalent lens on an unlit gameboy screen that updates at about 1fps in low light situations is not an easy task but I got a couple of shots in!
Be sure to read his article to get more insight, and check the sample photos. Kudos Bastiaan!
You can follow Bastiaan Ekeler on Twitter, Instagram, or have a look at his site.
[via Hackaday]
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EDIT: it appears to be an EF mount with high speed electrical connections, not a hybrid mount, not a new mount type.
Hi Lows Note spotted a Canon patent application (2018-084713) for a mount type that can manage different types of lenses. It appears to be neither and EF nor an EF-M mount (but we are not really sure about that).
From the patent literature (machine translated):
Conventionally, the serial communication (synchronous serial communication) of a clock synchronization system has been adopted as a communication method of a camera and an interchangeable lens. The following technical contents are disclosed in the Patent document 1. First, synchronous serial communication is performed with the first communication speed with which an interchangeable lens old type can also communicate. When the interchangeable lens with which it is equipped is distinguished from a new lens by the communication content, it changes to the synchronous serial communication in a more nearly high-speed second communication speed.
What we understand from the patent literature is that the mount type can handle two different types of lenses (old type vs. not old type). This has led some people to speculate about a hybrid mount type that has to come with Canon’s future full frame mirrorless camera.
As cool as this would be, there is absolutely nothing in the patent literature that makes us think Canon will feature a hybrid mount type that will fit all of their lenses (with different mounts), and possibly even more.
In the image on top you can see an element (1D) that has the purpose to detect newer lenses, i.e. lenses with a more recent AF technology and interface protocol. The two kind of lenses referenced in the patent literature and in the excerpt above, are most likely lenses with an older AF interface protocol, and newer lenses with faster AF speed and an updated interface protocol.
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