OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6 R

US 8,767,310 B2, Numeral Example 1-2 — Yasuji Ogata, Yasuharu Yamada, Toshio Takahashi, Toyoki Kon

13 ELEMENTS / 10 GROUPS
DESIGN f = 40.80–147.00 mm
DESIGN F/4.08–5.91
ALL SPHERICAL
1 ED, 1 HR ELEMENT (MAKER)

Focus Mechanism

G4 moves toward the image for closer focus; G1, G2 and G3 do not move. The patent plots aberrations at 0.9 m but prints no close-focus spacings, so the travel is calculated for a 0.9 m object-to-image distance: 1.40 / 3.80 / 6.38 mm at the wide, middle and telephoto positions. These positions reproduce the f-numbers printed in Fig. 7 to within 0.001, and 0.9 m is the marketed minimum focus distance. Distance labels are approximate, by up to about 6.5% at far focus, and finite-conjugate MTF is unavailable.

Optical Elements (13 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L1Biconvex PositiveS-BSL7 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L2Negative MeniscusS-TIH6 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L3Negative MeniscusS-LAL18 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L4Positive MeniscusS-NPH1 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L5Negative MeniscusS-LAH66 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L6Biconvex PositiveS-FPL51 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L7Biconvex PositiveS-FSL5 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L8Biconcave NegativeTAFD25 (HOYA, coordinate equivalent)
L9Biconcave NegativeS-BAH28 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L10Biconvex PositiveS-BSM14 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L11Biconvex PositiveS-LAH66 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L12Positive MeniscusS-TIM25 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L13Biconcave NegativeS-LAL61 (OHARA catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)