NIKON AI NIKKOR 200mm f/2 S IF-ED

US 4,176,913 A, Example 2 — Soichi Nakamura, Kiyoshi Hayashi

10 ELEMENTS / 8 GROUPS
f = 200 mm
F/2
2ω = 12.32°
2 ED ELEMENTS
INTERNAL FOCUS

Focus Mechanism

PUBLISHED internal-focus states from US 4,176,913 A Example 2: the complete negative middle group translates 17.000 mm imageward; D6 increases 41.201→58.201 mm while D11 decreases 22.912→5.912 mm, preserving D6+D11=64.113 mm. The patent labels the close endpoint β≈-0.1; this slider endpoint is not reconstructed from the production 2.5 m MFD.

Optical Elements (10 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L11Biconvex PositiveJ-FKH1 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 500819; production supplier unspecified)
L12Biconvex PositiveJ-FKH1 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 500819; production supplier unspecified)
L13Biconcave NegativeE-FD4 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 755275; production supplier unspecified)
L21aPositive Meniscus (cemented)J-LAFH3 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 795284; production supplier unspecified)
L21bBiconcave Negative (cemented)FK3 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 465658; production supplier unspecified)
L22Biconcave NegativeFK3 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 465658; production supplier unspecified)
L31Biconvex PositiveH-LaK6A catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 694536; production supplier unspecified)
L32aBiconcave Negative (cemented)FF5 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 595356; production supplier unspecified)
L32bBiconvex Positive (cemented)K-LaK14 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 697556; production supplier unspecified)
L33Negative MeniscusFK3 catalog-equivalent coefficient proxy (patent 465658; production supplier unspecified)