NIKON AI AF ZOOM-NIKKOR 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D IF-ED

US 2001/0030812 A1 — Akiko Furuta

18-35mm f/3.5-4.5
11 ELEMENTS / 8 GROUPS
1 COMPOUND ASPHERICAL + 1 ED ELEMENT
INTERNAL FOCUS • 0.33 m MFD

Focus Mechanism

PUBLISHED inner-focus states: G2a translates imageward while d9+d12 is conserved at each zoom position; near rows are labeled R=0.33 m. The printed Example 2 d0 row is internally inconsistent with the patent's object-to-image definition of R (d0 + S1-to-image track is about 323.330 mm), so d0 is not used to reconstruct movement.

Optical Elements (11 physical; 12 modeled media)

ElementTypeGlass
L11Negative Meniscus795453 class (vendor unspecified)
L12cCompound Asphere LayerUnmatched (compound-asphere layer; material not identified)
L12Negative Meniscus Substrate795453 class (vendor unspecified)
L13Biconcave NegativeH-LaF3B catalog equivalent (patent 744448; production supplier unspecified)
L14Biconvex PositiveJ-LAFH3 catalog equivalent (patent 795286; production supplier unspecified)
L21Negative Meniscus788474 class (vendor unspecified)
L22Biconvex Positive501564 class (vendor unspecified)
L23Biconvex PositiveBAK2 catalog equivalent (patent 540595; production supplier unspecified)
L24Biconcave Negative795453 class (vendor unspecified)
L25Negative MeniscusNBFD10 catalog equivalent (patent 834374; production supplier unspecified)
L26Biconvex PositiveJ-FKH1 catalog equivalent (patent 498825; production supplier unspecified)
L27Biconvex PositiveBAK2 catalog equivalent (patent 540595; production supplier unspecified)