Canon Patent For EF-S 100-300mm f/4-5.6 IS Lens

Canon filed a new patent in Japan. The new patent describes the EF-S 100-300mm f/4-5.6 IS lens which looks like to be a new zoom lens for APS-C sensor Canon DSLRs.

The patent application shows the details of a zoom lens covers a excellent range starting from 100 to 300mm. The EF-S 100-300mm f/4-5.6 IS lens comes with a Image Stabilization system.

If the lens becomes available into production, it will be a budget zoom lens for EOS 7D Mark II users. See the EF-S 100-300mm f/4-5.6 IS lens patent details.

Canon EF-S 100-300mm f/4-5.6 IS Lens Patent

• Patent Publication No. 2015-138178
  • Published 2015.7.30
  • Filing date 2014.1.23
• Example 1
  • Focal length 102.00 195.50 291.20mm
  • F number 4.16 5.14 5.88
  • Half angle of 7.63 4.00 2.69 °
  • Positive and negative positive and negative four-group zoom
  • Anti-vibration (part of the second group)

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