In this patent application (2025-029311), Canon features some rather slow, but very small lenses. At first, I thought of these as pancakes and then doing something like maths, it became obvious that these are much smaller than pancake lenses.
Given how popular Ricoh GR series cameras are with a broad range of photographers, it should come as little surprise that people capture amazing photos using their GRs.
Canon’s supertelephoto lenses are the stuff of legend. They have always been insanely reliable, built like tanks and optical quality that has always been superb. Somehow, with each iteration of their lenses, they get better.
After every announcement, there’s always the desire to know what’s coming next. The Canon PowerShot V1 was announced in Asia as you know, but when it will come to the rest of the world could be up in the air.
CP+, held in Yokohama, Japan, every February and early March, is the largest camera-related show that occurs now. Photokina used to be it for photography, so much so, that camera and lens releases were often released in August and early September just to get ready for the Photokina buzz.
We reported back in mid January that new firmware was going to be announced ahead of CP+, which is currently running for the both the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II That has not come to pass and we continue to wait for bug fixes and feature enhancements for both cameras, including the authentication [.
Canon announced the PowerShot V1 for markets in Asia last week, which is a unique way for Canon to launch a new camera. The global announcement for the Canon PowerShot V1 is currently schedule for March, with initial availability coming in April.