2024-06-10 15:11:00
Canon right this moment broadcasts its RF 35mm F1.4L VCM, a really basic wide-aperture prime, if it did not give it a humorous identify that displays its goal cameras. Canon describes it as a hybrid.
After the SLR period, cameras with interchangeable lenses sought their identify: Compact with interchangeable lenses (COI or COIN), CSC (Compact System Digicam) and others. The conference now might be to name them hybrids for his or her twin video capabilities. A twin talent that didn’t all the time come right down to optics. Whereas some producers have motorized sure optics, not all make the double effort to design optics for picture and video.
This shortcoming was true for Canon, which affords a hard and fast focal size with its RF 35mm F1.4L VCM that can attraction not solely to photojournalists, but in addition to videographers searching for a average broad angle to make use of in video.
The RF 35mm F1.4L VCM is a lovely 555g child from the well-known L line, the head of Canon optics. A group of 14 lenses grouped into 11 teams, together with two UD (low dispersion) components and two GMo aspherical components (formed glass aspherical lenses). It is all surrounded by an 11-blade diaphragm that ought to generate stunning background blur. With a focal size of 28 cm (magnification ratio of x0.18), the lens affords good potential for well-isolated foreground topics (however we’re removed from macro).
To attraction to videographers, Canon’s engineers have built-in an aperture management iris. Why not write a management ring? Just because this mechanism solely works in video (therefore the identify iris): in picture mode you possibly can solely regulate the aperture from the digicam!
In the case of optical design, engineers have gone to nice lengths to cut back focus your breath, a phenomenon that modifications the body if you change the main target distance. A function made potential by the addition to the basic ultrasonic focusing motor (USM) of a voice coil motor (VCM, current within the product’s identify). A double-lens motorization system that permits not solely fast motion of the lenses, however above all exact actions able to correcting focus your breath.
Observe in passing that the worth of optics is way increased in Europe than within the US: optics value $1,500 excluding tax throughout the Atlantic, which is barely lower than €1,400 excluding tax. If we impose gross sales tax (there is no such thing as a actual US gross sales tax, however a gross sales tax) common of 10% (it’s much less in actuality), the worth in {dollars} will probably be $1650, or €1515 together with tax, or €385 much less in an space the place wages are a lot increased than these practiced in Europe. Thanks Canon…
First within the vary of hybrid optics (for hybrid cameras, due to this fact) the RF 35mm F1.4L VCM will probably be obtainable through the month of July 2024 at €1900.
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