The DIGISUPER 95 TELE is the telephoto version of the existing DIGUSPER 95. The DIGISUPER 95 TELE features a focal length of 1178mm (2356mm with 2x Extender), currently the longest in the industry1.
Regardless of extending the focal length to the utmost limit, the DIGISUPER 95 TELE has maintained its size (610mm in length) and weight (23.2kg) from the Standard DIGISUPER 95 and is one of the lightest lenses in its class1.
Canon's design and production technologies have been refined through more than 50 years of advanced R&D and extensive experience in broadcast lens development. The past decade especially has seen dramatic advances in powerful new 3D optical design tools, glass materials, and optical coatings.
Canon's use of computer-based 3D optical design techniques and contemporary optical technologies help to allow the DIGISUPER95 TELE lens to provide a wide angle of view, a high zoom ratio, and outstanding overall optical performance. Canon's proprietary large-diameter aspherical lens technology and new glass materials effectively counter lateral chromatic aberration, monochromatic aberrations, and geometric distortion that have always been the particular challenge of large focal-length ranges. Reduction of these aberrations further enhance the resolution and contrast in a manner that contributes to the capture of images having superb picture sharpness across the 16:9 HD image plane.
32-bit CPU calculates and controls the zoom when focusing to counteract "breathing" (phenomena where picture size/ angle of view changes when focusing) and has almost zero zoom effect.
A persistent problem for telephoto lenses is image blurring at long focal lengths caused by the wind or slight vibrations transmitted through the stadium stand or tower. To help minimize this sort of image blurring, the DIGISUPER 95 TELE comes standard equipped with an improved optical shift-type image stabilizer. When the sensor inside the lens detects a vibration, the compensating optics are shifted at high-speed to instantly deflect the light rays in a direction that can cancel out the vibration's effect on the image. The DIGISUPER 95 TELE 's new sensor provides improvements to Canon's image-stabilization performance.
The DIGISUPER 95 TELE offers outstanding tracking capability due to its high-resolution encoders to faithfully reproduce the camera operator's intended movements, whether a slow zoom or a preset sequence. The DIGISUPER 95 TELE x, despite its powerful specs, is similar in size and weight to the DIGISUPER 95 TELE, making it perfectly viable for panning and tilting.
The DIGISUPER 95 TELE is equipped with high-performance zoom, focus, and iris encoders. With multiple support for encoder outputs, analog outputs, and serial outputs, the DIGISUPER 95 TELE can work with many kinds of virtual systems. It easily adapts to existing virtual systems because it comes standard equipped with 20-pin lens interface.