Last update: Review & Sample Photos @ Photozone (added on 23 March’07)

Canon has announced its new L-series standard prime lens: the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM. The lens is featuring Latest Ultrasonic Motor (USM) for fast and near silent auto focus with manual focus override with environmental seals providing dust and moisture resistance. The Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM should be available in November 2006 for US$1600.

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Last Updated: Vide Review & Sample Photos @ DigitalGrin (added on 02.03.07)

The Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens is a compact, lightweight and robustly built super wide angle lens (equivalent to 16-35mm in 135mm format) for Canon digital camera with 1.6x crop factor featuring inner focusing, ring USM and new AF algorithms for fast and quiet autofocusing, three aspherical lens elements (two types) as well as a super-UD glass element for high image quality at all focal lengths, and Optimized lens coating minimising flare and ghosting prone occurring with digital cameras.

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens Hottest Deals

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Interested to see how Canon lenses are made? You might want to visit the Canon Virtual Lens Plant, a new section to Canon Camera Museum website that demonstrates how lenses are made and explains some of the underlying technologies used in lens design. The website contains graphics and video clips that illustrate the production processes used in lens manufacture.

Warning: This is a heavy website, you will require high-speed Internet connections such as ADSL, optical cable or CATV plus Adobe Flash Player version 8 or later.

Last update: Review & Sample Photos @ KenROckwell (added on 17.02.07)

The new Canon EF 85 mm F/1.2 L II lens (Mark II) is the successor of Canon EF 85 mm F/1.2 L with better auto focus speed and it is now compatible with E-TTL II flash metering algorithm.

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Last Updated: Review by Ken Rockwell (added on 15.02.07)

Featuring the latest 3-stop Image Stabilizer for outstanding camera shake reduction, the lens also features super responsive auto focus. Replacing the popular EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM, the world’s first interchangeable lens with Image Stabilizer (IS), the lens is expected to appeal to serious amateur nature and sports photographers looking to achieve outstanding results while shooting hand held.

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Latest Price Info & User Reviews

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Canon have recently announced their first interchangeable lens with 4 stop Image Stabilizer. Canon EF 70-200mm F/4L IS USM lens will allow photographers to hand held photography with no perceptible image blur at shutter speeds up to 4 steps slower than otherwise possible.

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CameraLabs have recently posted their review of the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 USM L IS where they write;

“In our tests, the 24-70mm was quite soft in the extreme corners compared to the 24-105mm at wide-angle, although their positions swapped when zoomed-in, with the 24-70mm delivering a better result. Interestingly, the 24-70mm at 24mm also exhibited impressively low geometric distortion.In terms of build quality, the 24-70mm featured more metal body parts, giving the impression of a tougher, albeit heavier overall product. And while the 24-105mm was no slouch when it came to focusing, the 24-70mm was noticeably quicker - and its brighter aperture would certainly help when conditions became dim.”

>> Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Review Roundup & Samples
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Canon Service Notice

Canon EF 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens May Result in Insufficient Resolution

To Customers Who Use the EF 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens:
Thank you very much for your patronage of our products. We have recently become aware of a phenomenon in which some images captured by the EF 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS USM lens appear in insufficient resolution. This phenomenon may be seen at the edge of the frame at the 300mm setting when the camera is held vertically. We have been studying the symptoms of this phenomenon in order to determine its precise cause and to develop an appropriate remedy. We will inform you on this Web site as soon as this remedy has been decided, which, at this point should be by the end of June 2006.

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Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM was first announced at PMA 2004 as a replacement for the Canon EF 35-350mm /3.5-5.6L IS USM lens. The lens has very similar size and shape with its predecessor, with dimensions of 92mm dia. x 184mm (max. length 257.2mm) and weighing around 1670g, sure you’ll need more energy to carry this lens around. The 28-300mm is equipped with third generation Image Stabilizer which reduces vibration as much as 3 stops, allowing hand holding of long lenses at much lower shutter speeds than would otherwise be possible.

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An interesting webpage by Canon USA which gives you a good visual simulation of what affect various focal lengths have on your image.

Click here if you don’t have any flash player installed on your computer. Otherwise, just click on the image above.