Olympus Filed Patent For 12mm f/1.0 and 14mm f/1.0 Lenses

Egami has discovered a new patent filed by Olympus. New patent describes two wide angle, large aperture lenses for Micro Four Thirds system cameras. These are the Olympus 12mm f/1 and 14mm f/1 mft lenses.

These mft lenses could be the world fastest ultra-wide angle autofocus lens for any interchangeable camera system! Aperture f/1 may vary when development of these lenses are finished and become f/1.2. Anyway this is really wonderful news if these patents turn into real products.

See below for the machine translated details for the 12mm f/1 and 14mm f/1 lens patents.

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Olympus Filed Patent For 12mm f/1 and 14mm f/1 Lenses

Description and self-interpretation of the patent literature

• Patent Publication No. 2014-32231
  • Publication date 2014.2.20
  • Filing date 2012.8.19
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  embodiment

  No.	Focal length	Fno.	Angle of view	Image height	BF	Length	Format	Conversion
  One	12.70	1.05	82.55	10.42	15.95	81.61	4/3 “	24
  Two	14.27	1.00	76.00	10.46	16.75	78.61	4/3 “	28
  Three	12.70	1.00	82.54	10.42	13.56	78.61	4/3 “	24
  Four	13.99	1.00	77.12	10.42	13.74	78.61	4/3 “	28
  Five	9.05	1.00	82.94	7.52	8.69	64.61	1 “	24
  Six	5.46	0.95	80.62	4.29	6.41	40.73	1/1.7 “	26

   

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