A patent has been registered by Fujifilm that shows a Fujinon XF 60mm f/2.5 Macro OIS. Digicame-info, who spotted the patent and reports here, writes:

There are several examples with different lens configurations, but all of them are macros of 60mm f/2.5 and include an anti-vibration lens group (OIS). The focusing lens (GF1, GF2) moves internally, so it’s inner focus. Will one of these examples be the successor to the current XF60mm f/2.4 R?

You know what I think about patents. In 10 years of blogging I have shared hundreds of those on FR, and maybe only one became real (and I think even that one, we rumored it before the patent even surfaced).

I say it, because people are still desperately waiting for the Fujinon XF 300mm F4 and XF 500mm F5.6, which I warned you already are nowhere near to come (if ever).

Patents are concepts written on paper, and they remain such in 99% of the cases. So please don’t put too much hope in any of them.

Fujifilm has a new Macro in the works, but it’s the XF30mmF2.8 Macro here. And they have also a MKII lens to come this year, but it’s the XF56mmF1.2 MKII here.

• Applicant: Fujifilm Corporation
  Publication number: P2022083846
  Application number: P 2020195417
  Released:2022-06-06
  Name of invention: Image sensor and imaging device
• [Issue] We provide an imaging lens with good aberration correction even in proximity shooting conditions, and an imaging device with this imaging lens.
• In recent years, with the high pixelization of the image sensor, it has been requested to have an image lens with a good aberration correction even in proximity shooting conditions.
• This disclosure is based on the above circumstances, and the purpose is to provide an imaging lens with a good aberration correction even in proximity shooting conditions, and an imaging device with this imaging lens.
• Example 1 (60mm f/2.5)
  Focal length 58.210
  F number 2.5
  Total angle of view 26.64
  Maximum image height 14.2

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