Richard CanonNews / Thursday, February 7, 2019 / Categories: Canon Patents This post may contain affiliate links(s). An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase through my link, without any additional cost to you. It helps to keep this site afloat. Thank you in advance for your support. If you like what we do here, maybe buy me a coffee. Canon Patent Application: Diffractive Optical Element Canon has applied for another patent on a diffractive optical element. Supposedly this diffractive optical element doesn't have the nature of cracking during manufacturing, which would mean it has a greater yield and cheaper overall to make. A diffractive optical element allows lens designers to create the same lens smaller, and perhaps lighter as well than the same lens made without the diffractive optical element. We are looking forward to Canon using diffractive optics in more lenses, especially for the RF mount, where the smaller size of diffractive optics lenses matches up well to smaller cameras. US Patent Application 20190041556 Richard CanonNewsRichard CanonNews Richard has been using Canon cameras since the 1990s, with his first being the now legendary EOS-3. Since then, Richard has continued to use Canon cameras and now focuses mostly on infrared photography. Richard is the founder and editor of CanonNews since 2017, and has worked as a writer on CanonRumors and other websites in the past. Other posts by Richard CanonNews Contact author Facebook page Previous Article Canon Patent Application: BSI DPAF Sensor mentioned Next Article Canon Patent Application: Photon Counting Image Sensor Print Tags: Canon Patent ApplicationDIffractive OpticsDO Please login or register to post comments.