/ The new lens is designed to make shooting spatial video easier for content creators.
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Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that Canon is making a funky-looking new lens for its EOS R7 camera, tailor-made for creating spatial video content for the Vision Pro headset. This comes alongside the new visionOS 2 update, which brings more emphasis on spatial images to the Photos app.
This isn’t Canon’s first time making a single-purpose dual-lens array like this for its EOS line. It currently has a VR system with an RF 5.2mm f/2.8 L Dual Fisheye lens that’s compatible with the EOS R5 C, R5, and R6 Mark II. The new spatial lens is an RF-S 7.8mm f/4 STM lens, meaning it’s a lens exclusively for crop sensor bodies like the R7.
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