Imaging recource: Canon files patent for potential successor to its 50mm f/1.4

    A new patent from Canon details the optical formula for two new lenses that may very well fight it out to become the replacement for Canon’s mid-range 50mm lens. Patent Publication No. 2015–172611, originally filed in March 2014, lays out the architecture for both a 50mm f/1.4 lens as well as a 58mm f/1.4 lens. The former is made up of ten elements in eight groups, three of the elements being aspherical to minimize chromatic aberration. The 58mm f/1.4 formula is comprised of eleven elements in nine groups, with three of the...
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