MINOLTA AF 35mm f/2

JP1988-201614 A — Hisashi Tokumaru

7 ELEMENTS / 6 GROUPS
35mm MARKETING / 35.0002mm MODELED
f/2
2ω = 64° PATENT / 63° SERVICE MANUAL
ALL-SPHERICAL
UNIT FOCUS

Focus Mechanism

CONSTRAINED_RECONSTRUCTION — rigid unit focus. The patent publishes no finite-focus spacings; the Minolta service manual states that all optical lenses translate together and gives 0.300 m MFD. The model treats 0.300 m as object-to-image-plane distance, preserves every internal spacing, and varies only BF from 36.398842615 to 42.338034718 mm (+5.939192103 mm extension).

Optical Elements (7 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L1Negative Meniscus532488 — extra-light-flint / TIL-class coordinate (supplier unresolved)
L2Biconvex PositiveS-LAH60 coefficient proxy (supplier unspecified; patent 834371)
L3aPlano-Concave Negative699301 — dense-flint class coordinate (supplier unresolved)
L3bPlano-Convex PositiveJ-LASF016 coefficient proxy (supplier unspecified; patent 773498)
L4Biconcave Negative805254 — SF6-class coordinate (supplier unresolved)
L5Positive Meniscus786442 — lanthanum-flint class coordinate (supplier unresolved)
L6Biconvex PositiveJ-LASF016 coefficient proxy (supplier unspecified; patent 773498)