In this patent application (2025-028297), Canon discusses super-telephoto prime lenses with built-in teleconverters. Unlike normal teleconverters, which you add to the end of the lens and the extender attaches between the lens and the camera, these insert optical elements inside the lens itself.
Back in July, Canon unveiled its new RF 600mm f/11 and RF 800mm f/11 lenses. If you’re familiar with Canon’s vintage lenses, you may have noticed that the new lenses share interesting similarities with Canon’s R 600mm f/5.
Photographer and filmmaker Jesse Watson made this beautiful 3-minute short film that shows the silhouettes of a hiking family framed within the rising full moon. Watson shot the film on August 14th, in Yuma, Arizona using a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K with a 600mm lens.
Nikon just released the new Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF ED VR, a new super-telephoto prime lens that’s ultra small and lightweight for its class. The development of this lens was announced back in June with minimal details, and now Nikon is providing a full picture of what this lens is. The Phase Fresnel (PF) lens […]
Portrait photographers generally pick focal lengths somewhere between 80mm and 135mm, which produces a flattened perspective distortion when the subject fills up the frame. Photographer Keydrin Franklin of 924photography recently decided to try his hand with shooting portraits with a 500mm super-telephoto lens.
Sony has announced a new FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS zoom lens and the development of a new 400mm f/2. 8 super-telephoto lens, expanding the selection available to photographers using E-mount full frame mirrorless cameras.
PetaPixel has posted a nice piece about a Canon PE 300mm f/1.8 with an EF mount. We have to admit that we had no idea such a lens existed and it may be even rarer than the EF 1200mm f/5.6L. Apparently there are only 4 known copies of the Canon 300mm f/1.8 and the lens Read more...
Canon has announced redesigns to two popular super-telephoto lenses in the new EF 400mm f/2. 8L IS III and EF 600mm f/4L IS III. Both lenses are designed to be significantly more portable than their predecessors.