CANON RF 50mm f/1.8 STM

US 2021/0263286 A1 — Junya Ichimura

6 ELEMENTS / 5 GROUPS
50mm f/1.8 (MARKETED)
f = 49.5616 mm / F1.8527 (MODELED)
2ω = 47.16° (PATENT) / 46° (MARKETED)
1 ASPHERICAL ELEMENT / 2 ASPHERICAL SURFACES

Focus Mechanism

CONSTRAINED_RECONSTRUCTION — patent ¶0048 specifies rigid unit focus (LF + STO + LR translate together). The 0.30 m close state is code-solved from Canon's MFD, normalized to object-to-image-plane distance: S12→IMG = 38.059827 mm, 12.392715 mm outward travel from computed infinity, with paraxial magnification -0.250047×. The reference-plane normalization is a modeling choice; all internal spacings remain fixed, and no finite-distance spacing row is published in the patent.

Optical Elements (6 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L11Positive Meniscus835427 class (vendor unresolved)
L12Positive Meniscus800422 class (vendor unresolved)
L13Negative Meniscus805254 class (vendor unresolved)
L21Negative Meniscus673321 class (vendor unresolved)
L22Pos. Meniscus (2× Asph)Unmatched (resin material; patent nd=1.53110, vd=55.9)
L23Biconvex Positive734515 class (vendor unresolved)