That's a 44x Zoom
Canon has published a patent for a zoom lens with an equivalent focal length of 24-1060. That's a 44x zoom for those that are counting. Could we see this in the next SX PowerShot camera? A good possibility.
Patent Publication No. 2012-98699
- 2012.5.24 Release Date
- 2010.10.7 filing date
Example 7
- Zoom ratio 44.28
- 13.08 – – 190.43mm f = 4.30 focal length
- Fno 2.87 – 5.00 – 7.07
- 16.50 – – 1.17 deg 37.77 a half angle of view.
- 3.88 – – 3.88mm 3.33 image height
- 93.62 – – 137.94mm 94.49 lens length
- BF 1.00mm
- 13 pieces in 10 groups Lens Construction
- Two four-sided aspherical
- 3 UD glass sheet
- One fluorite
- Group 4 consists of positive and negative positive positive
- (For Focusing the fourth lens group) Rear focus
Source: [EG]
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