Nikon Corporation

Natsuki Shirai

Takashi Shimizu

Kenji Isono

An interchangeable lens includes: a mount on which a camera body can be mounted; a communication device that performs communication with the camera body; a driven member; a controller that controls the driven member; and a storage device that stores lens data related to control of the driven member by the controller. The controller sends to the camera body via the communication device lens-side judgment data based on the lens data and a parameter relating to the driven member received from the camera body via the communication device and based on which whether the lens data is considered to be properly stored in the storage device or not can be judged at the camera body.

Interchangeable lens and camera body

An interchangeable lens includes: a mount unit on which a camera body can be mounted; a driven member; a drive unit that drives the driven member; a storage unit that stores lens data related to driving of the driven member by the drive unit; and a transmitter that sends lens-side judgment data, based on which whether the lens data is properly stored in the storage unit can be judged at the camera body, to the camera body.

An exchangeable lens mountable on a camera body includes: a selection unit configured to select a first state wherein a movement range of a focusing optical system changing the exchangeable lens' focal position is limited and a second state which is different from the first state, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a first and second value which is equal to or smaller than the first value to the camera body in the second state, the first value indicating a relationship between the focusing optical system's moving amount and an image plane's moving amount at a position wherein the focusing optical system has moved, the second value indicating a relationship between the moving amount of the focusing optical system and the moving amount of the image plane, and transmit a value which changes depending on the focusing optical system's position as the second value in the first state.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Natsuki Shirai