Photoshoot and Beyond
C&A Marketing, which licenses Polaroid’s brand name, is suing GoPro for patent infringement of its Polaroid Cube line of action cameras. C&A claims that the GoPro HERO4 Session is a ripoff of the Cube, which was introduced to the market several months before the HERO4 Session. If you were familiar with the Polaroid Cube prior […]
A pair of folded lens patent applications from Apple surfaced last month. These patent applications were both filed in May 2014 but only published in September. Like the folded optics used the make the newly-announced and amazing Light L16 camera, the folded optics suggest that Apple will continue to fight toward photographic supremacy in the mobile […]
One of the major criticisms of DSLRs, and specifically Canon DSLRs, is the use of a rolling shutter that produces motion artifacts. This rolling shutter effect is very prevalent in video with Canon DSLRs thanks to the readout method of the CMOS image sensors. It has certainly improved with recent models (the 5D Mark II […]
In a recently published patent application, Canon details a new 35mm f/2 lens. You can see the optical formula in the above diagram. The lens construction is 104.5mm long, so it is quite a bit longer than the current model at 62.6mm. The patent also covers a revised image stabilizing system to the current EF […]
A recently published Canon patent application reveals a couple new lenses for the APS-C format cameras. First, is the Canon EF-S 15-55mm f/2.8-4 lens, which could be an advanced kit lens option with a faster aperture from wide to tele. Their are four slightly different embodiments of this specific lens and zoom range, along with […]
A recently published patent application from Canon reveals the development of new 50mm f/1.4 and 35mm f/1.4 lenses, which use similar optical formulas. We know the new EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM lens is due any day now but a 50mm f/1.4 lens hasn’t really been on the radar even though the current EF 50mm f/1.4 […]
A pair of recently published patent applications reveal updated versions of the Nikon 1 10mm f/2.8 lens and the Nikon 1 10-100mm f/4-5.6 VR lens. The 10mm f/2.8 patent was filed back in March, while the 10-100mm f/4-5.6 VR lens patent was filed in late April. These are probably a couple of the more popular […]
In a recent patent application submitted to the USPTO, Canon revealed a new adapter under development that would essentially turn every Canon EF lens into a tilt-shift lens. That’s pretty epic. Read on for how it works and why it’s so cool. You can buy tilt-shift adapters for Canon mounts now; however, there are a couple […]