"Canon Patents a Touch System That Could Replace the Focus Ring"

Apology if this is posted to the 'wrong' forum but am new here and it seems to fit the overall forum topical diversity.

A brief article in Gizmodo today with the above subject field title of possible interest and discussion:

https://gizmodo.com …eplace-the-foc-1846527798

"Canon has just registered an interesting patent that could change the way its new lenses work by replacing the classic focus ring with a touch panel."

Thoughts?

Whimsy wrote in post #19212282
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Apology if this is posted to the 'wrong' forum but am new here and it seems to fit the overall forum topical diversity.

A brief article in Gizmodo today with the above subject field title of possible interest and discussion:

https://gizmodo.com …eplace-the-foc-1846527798

"Canon has just registered an interesting patent that could change the way its new lenses work by replacing the classic focus ring with a touch panel."

Thoughts?
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I would be much more likely to use manual focus at times if this touch panel is implemented.

The act of turning a focus ring is so awkward and cumbersome for me that it is one reason that I use autofocus 99+% of the time, even when I would prefer to focus manually. . The ergonomics of turning a focus ring are just horrible for me with the large supertelephoto lenses that I use.


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Have to read the details of Canon patent. Just last night I saw a movie, set in the future, Bladerunner 2. A young woman was shooting macro shots of insects in a virtual world. She was using a camera with Plus and Minus buttons as the only means of adjusting focus. And you could see, in a rendition of her viewfinder, she would focus too close, then too far, and have to continue this back and forth adjustment overshooting the ideal plane of focus, because all she had was Plus and Minus control. The Canon patent would need to overcome the issue of overshooting focus adjustment.

edit: just read the article, and as the article points out, the Canon adjustment control found on the R was not well received. They would need to understand fully the characteristics in operation which made that a flop on the market, in designing this new control's characteristics, to better mimic use of the classic focus ring (or zoom control) in its characteristics (other than the simple rotational aspect). I know I hate the zoom control on my Canon point & shoot, as it overshoots what I want!