New Patent: Nikon 100x Optical Super Zoom Lens
Nikon Japan has filed a new patent – 100x optical super zoom lens (4.4-440mm f/2.8-8.3 or 24-2400mm equivalent) which is designed for a Nikon 1/2.3″ sensor compact camera. The current Nikon COOLPIX P900 super zoom compact camera has a 83x (24-2000mm) optical zoom range. It seems that the next super zoom compact camera from Nikon will have a 100x optical zoom range.
Take a look at the patent details below translated by Google.
- Patent Publication No. 2016-65912
- Published 2016.4.28
- Filing date 2014.9.24
- Example
- Zoom ratio 97.00
- f 4.430 43.630 429.712
- Fno 2.70160 5.08497 8.28574
- ω 43.39124 5.27441 0.53600
- Bf 0.400 0.400 0.400
- Bf (air length equivalent) 10.972 1.642 1.623
- TL 130.7843 173.5863 217.4697
- TL (air length equivalent) 131.0263 173.8283 217.7117
Via: Egami