LEICA SUMMILUX-C 100mm T1.4

US 8,508,864 B2 — Iain A. Neil

13 ELEMENTS / 10 AIR-SPACED GROUPS
3 FUNCTIONAL GROUPS (G1a / G1b / G2)
MARKETED 100 mm / T1.4
MODELED f/1.3976 AT F1 (d-line)
2 ASPHERICAL SURFACES
28 mm PATENT IMAGE DIAGONAL

Focus Mechanism

Published three-state floating focus: G1a fixed; G1b and G2 move independently but coordinately toward object space for closer focus. Table 5 gives F3 as 0.696 m from S0 to S1; after adding the 0.193248 m S1-to-image track, closeFocusM = 0.889248 m is the patent F3 object-to-image distance used by the focus control, not the marketed 0.99 m production MFD.

Optical Elements (13 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L2Biconvex PositiveS-FPL51 (OHARA)
L3Biconvex PositiveS-LAM2 (OHARA)
L4Biconcave Negative (1× Asph)S-NBM51 (OHARA)
L5Biconcave NegativeS-NBM51 (OHARA)
L6Positive MeniscusS-LAM55 (OHARA)
L7Negative MeniscusS-NBH8 (OHARA)
L8Biconvex PositiveS-FPL51 (OHARA)
L9Positive MeniscusS-FPL53 (OHARA)
L10Positive MeniscusS-NPH1 (OHARA)
L11Positive MeniscusS-FPL53 (OHARA)
L12Biconcave Negative (1× Asph)S-NBH8 (OHARA)
L13Positive MeniscusS-NPH1 (OHARA)
L14Biconvex PositiveS-LAH65V (OHARA)