CANON EF 500mm f/4 L IS USM

US 6,115,188 A — Akihiro Nishio, Hideki Ogawa, Makoto Misaka

15 MODELED ELEMENTS / 11 GROUPS
PATENT f = 490.56 mm; ARRAY EFL ≈ 491.36 mm
F/4.1 DESIGN / f/4 MARKETED
2ω = 5.0°
INNER FOCUS + TRANSVERSE IS GROUP

Focus Mechanism

CONSTRAINED_RECONSTRUCTION: the cemented L2 focus doublet translates 16.833981615 mm imageward from infinity to the normalized 4.497548307 m close state; D12 increases and D15 decreases equally, preserving 114.07 mm. The reconstruction is solved from Canon's marketed 4.5 m MFD. L3b image-stabilization motion is transverse only.

Optical Elements (17 physical; 15 modeled media)

ElementTypeGlass
L1aBiconvex Positive497816 — low-dispersion / UD coordinate class
L1b-1Biconvex Positive497816 — low-dispersion / UD coordinate class
L1b-2Biconcave Negative835427 — lanthanum dense-crown coordinate class
L1c-1Biconvex PositiveFluorite (CaF2; manufacturer-correlated crystal)
L1c-2Negative Meniscus516641 — S-BSL7 / K-BK7 coordinate class
L2-1Biconvex Positive805254 — dense-flint coordinate class
L2-2Biconcave Negative835427 — lanthanum dense-crown coordinate class
L3a-1Negative Meniscus847239 — dense-flint coordinate class
L3a-2Biconvex Positive835427 — lanthanum dense-crown coordinate class
L3b-1Biconvex Positive847239 — dense-flint coordinate class
L3b-2Biconcave Negative678553 — lanthanum crown coordinate class
L3b-3Biconcave Negative734515 — lanthanum crown coordinate class
L3c-1Biconvex Positive697555 — lanthanum crown coordinate class
L3c-2Biconvex Positive517524 — crown coordinate class
L3c-3Negative Meniscus720437 — legacy S-LAM52 / H-LaF62 coordinate class