CANON EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS III USM

US 2019/0041605 A1 — Shinichiro Saito, Makoto Nakahara

16 active elements / 12 groups (rear filter omitted)
Patent f = 392.00 mm; traced EFL = 391.938 mm
Design F/2.90; 2ω = 6.32°
Imageward L2 inner focus; transverse L3B image-stabilization group

Focus Mechanism

CONSTRAINED_RECONSTRUCTION: the patent publishes L2 axial focusing with L3 fixed but no finite-focus spacing table. The close endpoint is a one-DOF code solve to Canon's rounded 2.5 m MFD: L2 shifts +19.0782676028358 mm imageward while the adjacent gaps preserve 41.49 mm exactly. The model predicts |m| = 0.176031 at 2.5 m; Canon's rounded 0.17× value reverses to about 2.5795 m in this patent prescription.

Optical Elements (16 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L1-1Positive Meniscus595677 class; optical proxy S-FPM2 (OHARA)
L1-2Biconvex Positive437951 ultra-low-dispersion class; spectral proxy FCD100 (HOYA)
L1-3Biconcave Negative806333 dense-flint class; spectral proxy NBFD15 (HOYA)
L1-4Plano-Convex Positive437951 ultra-low-dispersion class; spectral proxy FCD100 (HOYA)
L1-5Positive MeniscusS-NPH4 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L1-6Negative MeniscusS-LAH60 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L1-7Positive Meniscus437951 ultra-low-dispersion class; spectral proxy FCD100 (HOYA)
L2-1Biconcave Negative618634 phosphate-crown class; spectral proxy PCD4 (HOYA)
L3A-1Negative MeniscusS-NPH4 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L3A-2Biconvex PositiveS-NSL36 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L3B-1Biconvex Positive806333 dense-flint class; spectral proxy NBFD15 (HOYA)
L3B-2Biconcave NegativeS-FPM3 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L3B-3Biconcave NegativeS-LAL18 legacy catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L3C-1Biconvex PositiveS-NBH5 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L3C-2Biconvex PositiveS-NBH8 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)
L3C-3Negative MeniscusS-NPH1 catalog equivalent (OHARA; production supplier unspecified)