Canon already has super affordable lenses like 60mm F11 and 800mm F11, these super affordable lenses were built using a Multi-layer Diffractive Optical Element that enables a lens to be made considerably smaller than traditional lens construction.
Now Nikon is in the mood to use the same tech and build affordable telephoto prime lenses like or even better than Canon. Japanese website digicameinfo spotted patents that reveal Nikon’s future plans. These are Nikon’s Telephotoprime DO lenses, All these Lenses are published as patents.
Nikon Upcoming Lenses
1. 600mm f/5.6,
2. 1000mm f/8, and
3. 400mm f/4.5
As per my previous experience, if the Nikon R&D team patents for approval then it will take roughly two years of time to make them as real products. So, we can expect the arrival of these lenses sometimes at the end of 2024 or in mid of 2025.
More Patent Details
- Applicant: Nikon Corporation
Publication number: P2023023323
Application number: P 2021128741
Publication date: 2023-02-16
Title of the invention: Optical system and optical equipment - An optical system and an optical apparatus having good imaging performance are provided.
- Conventionally, a miniaturized optical system using a diffractive optical element has been proposed (see Patent Document 1, for example). However, Patent Document 1 has a problem that further improvement in optical performance is demanded. Preferred embodiments are described below with reference to the drawings.
- Example 1 (600mm F5.6 PF)
Focal length 585.0002
F number 5.7100
Half angle of view 2.10557
Image height 21.6
Overall length 309.4549
Back focus 95.6894
- Example 5 (800mm F6.3 PF)
Focal length 779.93334
F number 6.4201
Half angle of view 1.56305
Image height 21.6
Overall length 393.4548
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Hate to break it to you, the 400 f/4.5 has been out for several months, so a bit late with that information.
600 f/5.6 PF would be awesome, but I doubt we’ll see it in next 2 years. 1000 f/8 will still be huge, as large as a 500 f/4 and similar price to 800 f/6.3 and even more specialised. I would rather use a 1.4x TC on the 800 which gets you 1120 f/9.