https://www.canonnews.com:443/Home/rss/category/1633/canon-lensesRSS documenthttps://www.canonnews.com/canon-r7-mark-ii-rumors-a-new-rf-s-15-70mm-f4-kit-lens-coming A new rumor has surfaced that the R7 Mark II will also come with a new RF-S kit zoom lens, rumored to be a 15-70mm.  Not much more is known, except that it's thought that it would be a constant F/4 aperture lens and be released with the R7 Mark II. Canon has in the past applied for a patent application for an APS-C 15-70mm F/4 (Japan Patent Number  7770854 ), so we'll talk about this for a bit.  It will give us an idea of what Canon is perhaps thinking about. ...]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:54:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/canon-r7-mark-ii-rumors-a-new-rf-s-15-70mm-f4-kit-lens-cominghttps://www.canonnews.com/usm-on-the-way-out-highly-unlikely An amusing article crossed my path today (thanks!) about particular musings about VCM and USM.  The author of the article assumed that because Canon hasn't released many ring-type USM lenses and was focusing on VCM, USM must be on the way out the door in terms of optical design at Canon.  Even though this sounds like clickbait (it probably is), it is an interesting thought nonetheless.  So I thought it would be a good idea to drill into this subject in a bit more technical depth.  It ...]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:04:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/usm-on-the-way-out-highly-unlikelyhttps://www.canonnews.com/canon-rf-300-600mm-f56l-vcm-rumored-crowded-super-tele-zoom-market A new rumor has been circulating that a Canon RF 300-600mm lens may appear in the near future, possibly this year.  Now, I had to go back and look to see if I talked about any RF 300-600mm in patent documents, and it did come up in the past, but faster than what is being alluded to in the current rumor mills.  We'll talk about that one later.  The current rumor suggests that the auto focus is now VCM.  I've noticed a new rumor trend that it seems "trendy" to suggest that VCM will be used ...]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:46:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/canon-rf-300-600mm-f56l-vcm-rumored-crowded-super-tele-zoom-markethttps://www.canonnews.com/a-new-canon-rf-24-70mm-f28l-is-usm-on-the-horizon Recently, rumors have been published discussing and speculating about an impending Canon RF 20-70mm f/2.8L IS VCM lens, which could be announced as early as 2026. The article I read was based on rumors on rumors, which suggested that Canon’s next iteration of their popular and long-standing standard zoom lens, the RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM, announced as far back as August 2019 could be replaced this year.  It was also rumored that the wide end could be extended from 24mm all the way down to ...]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:37:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/a-new-canon-rf-24-70mm-f28l-is-usm-on-the-horizonhttps://www.canonnews.com/canons-upcoming-exciting-announcements-on-march-26th Quite a bit of chatter is going around the internet about what is coming up.  There seems to be a bit of confusion, as Canon can change release schedules pretty much at a whim these days. I believe that this is all inventory management. Canon seems to be attempting to manage just in time inventory. So they'll push it back in the schedule if they feel they can't produce enough new items because of the supply of materials, parts or simply factory production schedules. Of course, this ...]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:08:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/canons-upcoming-exciting-announcements-on-march-26thhttps://www.canonnews.com/photos-of-the-upcoming-canon-rf-15-30mm-stm-and-rf-24mm-stm-4 I love to see these next two lenses from Canon, STM lenses in the past have usually been excellent value lenses. One element pops out to me in these released specifications from CanonRumors that is the excellent high magnification.  That is one feature that I hope that Canon continues to do with these smaller and cheaper STM lenses. If these lenses are optically good - and they project a full image circle, then we have two winners on our hands Canon RF 15-30mm f/4.5-6.3 IS ...]]>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 02:47:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/photos-of-the-upcoming-canon-rf-15-30mm-stm-and-rf-24mm-stm-4https://www.canonnews.com/rumored-rf-s-lenses-9 PhotoRumors has produced a list of rumored forthcoming RF-S lenses. The rumored zooms are listed below.  I'm personally wondering if the 11-55 is a typo, and it's meant to be 11-22 which is a more "sane" zoom range for an ultra-wide, but if it's actually an 11-55, that would have me getting an RF APS-C camera no matter how much I hate the back of the R7.  That would be an incredibly useful zoom range for me at least.  The 16-55 would be a nice lens, but 15-55 would make more sense from a ...]]>Thu, 26 May 2022 00:58:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/rumored-rf-s-lenses-9https://www.canonnews.com/new-rumor-new-supertelephoto-dos-and-the-r1-8 According to CanonRumors , Canon is testing prototypes of the following DO super telephotos; RF 400mm f/3.5 DO IS USM RF 400mm f/4 DO IS USM RF 500mm f/4.5 DO IS USM RF 500mm f/5 DO IS USM RF 800mm f/9.5 DO IS USM According to the source, only one of these is expected to make it out of the prototype and into production.  The 500mm lenses have had the best results so far, with one of them currently in the wild.   The source states that Canon hopes to ...]]>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:29:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/new-rumor-new-supertelephoto-dos-and-the-r1-8https://www.canonnews.com/press-text-leaks-for-the-canon-rf-1200mm-f8l-is-usm-6 Going by what we know, this is sounding like Canon essentially added the internal optics which would essentially be a 2x teleconverter to the Canon EF 600mm F4L IS USM and repurposed that into a Canon RF 1200mm F8L IS USM.  Unlike with an external teleconverter, this would allow Canon to specifically tune the rear optics using the front optics that were in the 600mm F4L IS USM for double the focal length.  This allows Canon to create a 1200mm lens that is far lighter and smaller than what one ...]]>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:14:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/press-text-leaks-for-the-canon-rf-1200mm-f8l-is-usm-6https://www.canonnews.com/leaked-images-of-the-rf-800mm-f56l-is-usm-and-the-rf-1200mm-f8l-is-usm-7 These are the first leaked pictures of the upcoming Canon RF 800mm F5.6L IS USM and the Canon RF 1200mm F8L IS USM. The 1200mm is most definitely a normal optic (a monster lens at that) and not a catadioptric lens. From the image, it’s going to be announced on February 24th. ]]>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 03:50:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/leaked-images-of-the-rf-800mm-f56l-is-usm-and-the-rf-1200mm-f8l-is-usm-7