Canon patent a new 15-53mm f/2.8-4 kit lens for its APS-C sensor DSLRs camera. The lens starts with a bright F2.8 aperture and that’s clearly show Canon effort for up-scaling the quality of kit lenses.
Take a detailed look of the patent details.
- Patent Publication No. 2015-152765
- Published 2015.8.24
- Filing date 2014.2.14
- Example 1
- Focal length 15.40 20.46 51.00mm
- Fno 2.80 3.00 4.30
- Half angle of view ω 41.57 33.73 14.99 °
- Image height 13.66mm
- Overall length of the lens 119.65 123.99 149.53mm
- BF 35.93 38.66 50.56mm
In general a patent documents take 2 to 3 years to transform into a real product, so this lens will arrive with either Canon 850D / Canon 900D or Canon 80D.
More Lenses on the Way
More APS-C / EF-S kit Lenses are also coming in near future since few days ago we have published a post – 15-85mm F3.5-5.6 New Kit Lens coming for APS-C DSLRs.