Lenrentals peeks inside the RF 50mm 1.2L USM

A new lens came out for canon recently, therefore, lensrentals must take it apart.

Roger from lens rentals details his journey into the unknown mysteries of what is exactly inside Canon's amazing RF 50mm 1.2L. In short, Roger never does really stated that they got it all back working after taking apart, but we would assume so. There were alot of mysteries in the new lens, and stuff that has never before been seen in a Canon created lens.

Some of Roger's thoughts on the teardown;

What we did see, though, is the R lenses are not only entirely new optics, they are also largely new electrical and mechanical systems. There are a lot of different things in here that we haven’t seen in any Canon EF lenses. Some of them we should have expected, like the increased electronics going to the control ring. Others we don’t really understand yet, like the tension spring in the ring USM motor or the increased electrical shielding.

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In the meantime, we’ll have to settle for seeing the same ‘best in field’ optical adjustability we expect in Canon lenses. We also saw lots of new stuff we don’t completely understand yet and a level of complexity we weren’t expecting. Complexity and our lack of familiarity with the lens make things seem a bit more chaotic than they really are, but certainly, this isn’t quite as modular as most new Canon lenses are.

But one thing that is very clear: the RF lenses contain some new technology they haven’t used before. There’s a lot of engineering that’s gone into these. Things are different inside here. As we’ll see in the next teardown we do, some of that is carrying over to at least some EF lenses. What does this mean? It means Canon has invested very heavily into developing the lenses of the R system. This level of engineering didn’t all happen in the last year, they’ve been working on this for quite a while.

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