Patent ID: 8400724

Claim:
A lens assembly useable with a camera having a camera body, the lens assembly comprising: a lens body portion having camera mount configured to be connected to the camera body, a lens body connected to the camera mount, and an adapter connected to the lens body; an optic assembly removably connected to the adapter and axially moveable relative to the lens body, the optic assembly having a housing connectable to the adapter and an optic carried by the housing, the optic assembly being configured to be removed from the lens body portion while the lens body portion remains on the camera body; a focus assembly coupled to the adapter and configured to axially adjust a position of the optic assembly relative to the lens body to control focus of the lens assembly when the optic assembly is installed in the lens body; a ball-in-socket tilt assembly intermediate the camera mount and the lens body and including a partially spherical ball portion pivotally engaged with a race to form a socket, the tilt assembly being configured to allow pivotal movement of the lens body relative to the camera mount; and a tension assembly disposed between the tilt assembly and the camera mount, the tension assembly structured to limit the movement of the spherical ball portion of the tilt assembly to fix the adapter at a particular position relative to the camera mount.