Everything youremember arrivedthrough glass
Eleven elements, one plane of silicon, and a shutter that decides what the world was for four thousandths of a second. Here is that machine, and here is every piece of it.
Nothing hereis decoration
Every ring, every contact, every sprung washer exists to hold a piece of glass exactly where it must be — and to keep holding it through heat, rain and ten years of being put down too hard.
Exploded view — 57 assembliesLight does notbend willingly
Eleven elements in eight groups. Two ground from extra-low-dispersion glass, one aspherical, all of them coated to give back less than half a percent of what strikes them. The barrel exists only to stop them arguing.
A body builtto be forgotten
Magnesium where it has to be rigid, glass where it has to be honest. Sealed at twelve points against the weather that would otherwise end the afternoon. You should never once think about it.
Flange depth — 20 mm / sealed at 12 pointsSilicon holdsstill for light
A full-frame sensor, back-illuminated: forty-five million wells waiting to be filled. Behind it, a board that empties all of them in eight milliseconds and never mentions it again.
Then it closes,and it is simplya camera
Assembled, it disappears into the hand. Every control has already been found by the finger that needed it. The screen shows you what you asked for and nothing you didn't.