EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

Canon applied for a patent application on a 70-300mm f/4-5.6 lens in March 2011.  Presumably, this is an update to the consumer grade line of 75-300mm non-IS lenses.  There’s no mention of image stabilization in the patent; however, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it couldn’t be an IS lens.

These are the current consumer zoom models in this range:

• EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
• EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM
• EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

The other line of thought is that a new 70-300mm f/4-5.6 lens with image stabilization could replace the existing mid-grade lens as a cheaper/lower model. [click to continue…]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }