Canon Introduces 20X ENG Lens For 2/3in Format Cameras

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Apr 13, 2011 8:00 AM

Utilizing what it called the ultimate visual technologies to broach high opening at an popular cost point, Canon introduced its cost-effective HDgc array of unstable HD wizz lenses at NAB.

The new KJ20x8.2B unstable HD lens is especially written to encouragement low-cost picture merger systems for a far-reaching operation of applications and users, from announce ENG to veteran freelance HD shooters. Leading the list of modernized features of the new lens is its built-in 2x extender, an critical imaging underline formerly seen on higher-end HD lenses.

As a result, the KJ20x8.2B offers camera operators softened subject-framing flexibility. The new KJ20x8.2B is moreover Canon's widest (8.2mm) lens in the affordable 20x wizz category, and it covers a inexhaustible operation of focal lengths, quite when amalgamated with its built-in 2x extender expanding its 8.2mm-164mm focal length to 16.4mm-328mm.

Canon mentioned the foreword of the KJ20x8.2B outlines a price-performance new thing is to many prolongation applications looking cost-effective HD merger systems formed on a new era of low-cost 2/3in camcorders. The lens has minimized axial and parallel chromatic aberrations, chroma aberrations, and algebraic distortion.

The new visual materials and multilayer visual coatings used is to KJ20x8.2B effectively draw visual artifacts such as ghosting, light and veiling glisten that might be wild by burly light sources (for example, object in daytime and automobile headlights at nighttime).

The KJ20x8.2B exhibits a high MTF (modulation give function) at picture core that is moreover good tranquil out to picture extremities. This high MTF is good postulated even with functional adjustments of focal length and object distance. The KJ20x8.2B's visual opening is well-balanced for both nearby and remote subjects, and its digest of remote subjects at far-reaching angles - often compulsory for landscape and cityscape shots - surpasses formerly existing lenses in this cost range.

The new lens moreover features Canon's ultimate improvements in Advanced Drive Unit technology. This technology is famous is to ease of use and manage it affords to camera operators using Canon unstable HD lenses. On the new KJ20x8.2B, Advanced Drive Unit technology includes Shuttle Shot, a Canon-exclusive technology that enhances prolongation capabilities.