Abstract: A mount for optical elements includes a frame and a holder for holding optical elements such as lenses and/or an image detecting element such as a CCD. The frame and holder are cylindrical. The diameter of an interior screw of the holder is smaller than the diameter of a mating exterior screw of the frame so that backlash between the frame and the holder at the screw connection is substantially eliminated as the frame is rotated relative to said holder to tighten the inner surface of the holder against the outer surface of the frame. In one embodiment, at least one notch extends in a longitudinal direction of the holder to assist in elastic deformation of the holder. In another embodiment, a tightening ring formed in a C-shape is mounted around the exterior surface the holder to constrain elastic deformation outwardly when the screw connection is tightened.

Abstract: A lens barrel device includes a lens mounted in a lens frame that is threaded into an annular adjusting ring. The adjusting ring is coupled using a bayonet to a lens barrel. The lens barrel includes first and second flanges on the inner periphery of the lens barrel that define grooves for receiving bayonet projections on the annular adjusting ring. The bayonet coupling structure of the annular adjusting ring includes semispherical projections for elastically engaging inner walls of the grooves and also includes a rotation regulating stopper for engaging an end wall of an opening in one of the inner flanges so as to regulate rotation of the annular adjusting ring, and hence the lens, relative to the lens barrel. The end wall includes a groove for receiving a jig that can release the bayonet coupling structure of the annular adjusting ring from the lens barrel.