Keith over at Northlight Images points to a patent application that includes designs for superzooms so wide in range that they appear to be versions of the mythical lens that forum posters sometimes use as an example of unreasonable expectations.
A 33mm f/4 to 600mm f/7.2 lens might have previously been used as a tongue-in-cheek reference to an impossible design. Today, it is just one “embodiment” of a real patent application that also includes:
24-400mm f/4-6.5
24-300mm f/4-5.6
28-500mm f/4-7.2
30-600mm f/8
Another patent from a few days earlier shows a series of fixed aperture zooms:
200-500mm f/4
200-400mm f/4
300-800 f/8
Hopes for L-quality image...
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