Camera lens names might look like gibberish, but they have meaning. We decode the naming conventions of 11 lens manufacturers, including Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, and other major brands.

Example: Canon EF 35mm F2 IS USM EF-S lenses are made ... while they come later in the name for mirrorless lenses. Examples: 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS Sports Stabilized Sony lenses include OSS, short ...

At a glance: For Nikon DSLR shooters, the 200-500mm f/5.6 offers a unique option ... Don’t forget to check out our guide to other great Canon EF lenses If there’s one lens that epitomises ...

Do you use a Canon EOS R mirrorless camera? From wide-angle to telephoto, these are the best lenses we've tested for the platform. Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus.

Canon has a few years of development behind the system, but there are still lenses only available in EF mount. And while we've seen a spattering of lenses from third parties, including autofocus ...

Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 13 years, which has given me a front row seat for the DSLR to mirrorless transition, the ...

It's an ultra-wide zoom lens designed for full-frame cameras like the Canon EOS R8 Its design is practically identical to that of the RF 28-70mm F2.8 IS STM It costs $1,149 / £1,249 / AU$1,879 ...

Sigma has launched two fast-aperture prime lenses for Canon mirrorless cameras; the 16mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary and 23mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary. They join four other Sigma lenses available for ...

The patent, JP2025-12993, which was published in Japan on January 24, demonstrates the concept of taking one optical system and adding a secondary optical system that can be inserted and removed as ...

Now that we have Circle to Search, Google Lens has been updated so that it immediately starts the camera viewfinder upon launch on Android and iOS. Previously, tapping the Google Lens shortcut in ...

Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could enable a new generation of compact optical devices. Researchers have fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel ...