NIKON AF-I NIKKOR 400mm f/2.8D IF-ED

US 5,438,455 A — Masahiro Nakashima

10 ELEMENTS / 7 GROUPS
400mm f/2.8 MARKETED
392.0066 mm PATENT F
INTERNAL FOCUS — PUBLISHED G2 MOTION
ALL-SPHERICAL

Focus Mechanism

PUBLISHED internal focus: negative unit G2 translates 17.8317 mm imageward from infinity to the patent R=3.300 m endpoint; d9 expands 8.2485→26.0802 mm while d14 contracts 23.0326→5.2009 mm, preserving d9+d14=31.2811 mm. No reconstructed focus state is used.

Optical Elements (10 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L11Biconvex PositiveJ-FKH1 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L12Biconvex PositiveJ-FKH1 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L13Biconcave NegativeJ-LAF7 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L14aNegative MeniscusJ-LAK14 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L14bPositive MeniscusJ-PSKH1 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L21Biconcave NegativeJ-BK7A (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L22aPositive MeniscusJ-SF03 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L22bBiconcave NegativeJ-LLF6 (HIKARI line-data correlation; patent νd differs by +0.32)
L3aBiconvex PositiveJ-FKH1 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)
L3bNegative MeniscusJ-SF8 (HIKARI catalog correlation; patent vendor unspecified)