tilt-shift Archives - Canon Rumors

Laowa launches two tilt-shift 1:1 macro lenses for the RF Mount

Canon Rumors — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:19:12 +0000

Laowa has announced two new tilt-shift macro lenses. The 55mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift 1X and 100mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift 1X. Both are 1:1 macro lenses. Both are capable of a 10 degree tilft and a 12mm shift. Both lenses have a very large image circle, so you can use them on your full-frame RF mount camera or [...]

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Laowa announces two new tilt-shift 1:1 macro lenses to the RF mount

Canon Rumors — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:58:01 +0000

Laowa has announced a couple of new tilt-shift lenses for the RF mount. Both of the new tilt-shift lenses are for full-frame image sensors. Laowa’s Venus Optics brand make some of the better third-party manual focus lenses for the RF mount, they also make some cool stuff like the probe lenses. We’re waiting impatiently for [...]

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New Autofocus RF mount tilt-shift lenses expected after next round of camera announcements

Canon Rumors — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:59:12 +0000

New RF mount Tilt-Shift lenses have been rumored for quite some time, and one of the big features coming is that they will be the first tilt-shift lenses that we know of to have autofocus. We have seen a series of patents for these lenses, and in the last six months or so, they have [...]

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Canon Patent Application: Camera with Internal Tilt Movement

Richard — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:47:09 +0000

Canon has been exploring quite a bit of methods of doing tilt in a more automated fashion, from having the lens electronically controlled to this patent application (2024-057829) that has the tilt movement controlled inside the camera itself. Canon in this patent demonstrates a technique that allows them to tilt the sensor while keeping the [...]

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Canon Patent Application: Automated Tilt Movements

Richard — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:36:41 +0000

This patent application (2024-025274) discusses how to automate the tilt movement given the objects that the user wants in focus, but more importantly when you want to tilt the plane of focus to something other than horizontal or vertical. I believe this is more commonly called swing. Canon is proposing setting the two focus points [...]

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At least three new lenses to be announced ahead of CP+

Canon Rumors — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:55:19 +0000

We have been told that Canon will announce at least three new lenses ahead of the CP+ Photo & Imaging Show in Yokohama, Japan which takes place between February 22 – February 25, 2024. We were not told what lenses to expect, but that a niche part of the market would be addressed. Canon has [...]

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Canon Patent Application: Automated Tilt-Shift Photography

Richard — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:40:58 +0000

When we were first discussing the series of patent applications on motorized tilt-shift lenses for the RF mount, one of my musings was the ability to use this to automate stitching and various shooting at different shifts and tilts. It appears in this patent application that Canon had the same idea (if I gave it [...]

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Canon Patent Application: Handheld tilt-shift

Richard — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:36:11 +0000

We recently discussed the patent here that talked about a motorized tilt-shift lens. It was my imagination that Canon could expand the functionality far beyond simply lens control. Well, it turns out the smart minds at Canon thought the same. This patent application allows the user to select areas in which they want in focus, [...]

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Canon Patent: Motorized Tilt / Shift Lens

Richard — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:18:48 +0000

This Canon patent application delves into the operation of a motorized tilt-shift lens for what appears like the Canon RF mount. Tilt-shift lenses have complicated and fragile mechanics, and removing some of the fiddly nature from these lenses would help in the field if the ergonomics of controlling the lens were fair. From the patent [...]

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New Canon Tilt-Shift lenses in the wild [CR2]

Canon Rumors — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:18:34 +0000

It looks like the much requested RF mount tilt-shift lenses are finally on the horizon. Tilt-shift lenses have been on our roadmap for a long time, and the big advancement is apparently these will be the first autofocus tilt-shift lenses on the market. We have been told that the new tilt-shift lenses are in the [...]

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