Richard CanonNews / Thursday, October 7, 2021 / 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: Small, Fast, Shutter Assembly Even though I think mechanical shutters in the Canon world are soon to be extinct, it's curious to see Canon still work on some future shutters. This patent application is trying to solve the problem of making a fast shutter, small and also doesn't require a larger battery to power it. Could it end up in future small RF cameras (or even gasp, an EOS-M such as what is demonstrated in the embodiments?) anything is possible. It could take a while before global shutters simply replace everything. This may also be interesting reading to some of you because it shows the correlation between shutter efficiency/speed and battery power. As we have seen on cameras such as the R5, as the battery drops, so does the shutter speed. Japan Patent Application 2021-156945 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 Related articles Patent Application: Lens Auto-Aperture Control Patent Application for Canon RF 16-28mm F2.8, 16-28mm F2.8-4 and 16-28mm F4 designs Canon Patent Application: High Magnification Super Telephoto Zooms Canon Patent Application: Curious Catadioptric Optical System Canon Patent Application: Drone Camera Assembly Previous Article Canon Patent Application: Small RF 28-70mm F2.8 Next Article 5DayDeal Photography Giveaway is live! Print Tags: Canon Patent Application Please login or register to post comments.