Nikon has a new patent for a 75x zoom lens designed for 1″ sensor

• 8 years ago
• Categories: Nikon Lenses, Nikon Patents

Nikon has a new patent for a 7.4-600mm f/2.8-6.3 lens designed for cameras with 1″ sensor (20-1620mm f/2.8-6.3 equivalent) – this is a 81x zoom to be exact (described as 75x zoom in the patent). Maybe this will be for a new super-zoom DL camera similar to the Coolpix P900, but with 1″ sensor. Here are the details:

• Patent: 2016-156901
• Published on September 1st, 2016
• Filed on February 24th, 2015
• Zoom ratio: 75.5x
• f: 7.70 – 67.58 – 581.59 (focal length)
• Fno: 2.75 – 5.02 – 6.44 (aperture)
• 2ω 92.58 13.446 1.5466 (angle of view)
• BF: 1.00 – 1.00 – 1.00 (backfocus)
• TL: 210.44 – 273.47 – 321.86 (total lens length)
• Inner focus (between the 4th and 5th group)
• Vibration Reduction (3rd group)

In the past 2 years Nikon has filed several patents for lenses designed for 1″ sensor.

Via Egami