TAMRON 14-150mm f/3.5-5.8 Di III (C001)

US 2014/0347522 A1 — Yoshito Iwasawa

17 ELEMENTS / 13 GROUPS
PATENT 14.43-145.40 mm
MODELED f/3.6909-5.9053
4 ASPHERICAL SURFACES
0.5 m MOD (CONSTRAINED RECONSTRUCTION)

Focus Mechanism

CONSTRAINED_RECONSTRUCTION: production 0.5 m subject-to-image-plane MOD solved by translating G4 only; D28 + D32 is conserved at each zoom position. Patent Table 12 itself represents an approximately 1.0 m subject-to-image state.

Optical Elements (17 physical; 18 modeled media)

ElementTypeGlass
L1Negative Meniscus904313 class (vendor unresolved)
L2Biconvex Positive497816 fluorophosphate / ED-crown class (vendor unresolved)
L3Positive Meniscus618634 phosphate-crown class (vendor unresolved)
L4rHybrid Aspherical Resin LayerUnmatched (hybrid-asphere resin, nd=1.51460, vd=49.96)
L4Negative Meniscus (Hybrid Substrate)911353 class (vendor unresolved)
L5Biconcave Negative911353 class (vendor unresolved)
L6Biconvex Positive923209 dense-flint class (vendor unresolved)
L7Negative Meniscus773496 class (vendor unresolved)
L8Biconvex Positive (2x Asph)583595 crown class (vendor unresolved)
L9Negative MeniscusLASFN13 (Sumita catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L10Biconvex Positive (Front Asph)583595 crown class (vendor unresolved)
L11Negative Meniscus908334 class (catalog unresolved)
L12Negative Meniscus911353 class (vendor unresolved)
L13Biconvex PositiveM-PCD4 (Hoya catalog equivalent; production supplier unspecified)
L14Biconvex Positive805255 dense-flint class (vendor unresolved)
L15Biconcave Negative804465 class (vendor unresolved)
L16Negative Meniscus805255 dense-flint class (vendor unresolved)
L17Positive Meniscus729547 class (vendor unresolved)