Olympus Corporation

Akiko Naito

Toshio Takahashi

Kazuteru Kawamura

Keitaro Yokoyama

Yasuji Ogata

Takeshi Hosoya

Koji Nakagawa

Kento Hara

Koki Hozumi

A zoom lens comprises four lens unit, and at the time of zooming, each of a distance between a first positive lens unit and a first negative lens unit and a distance between a second negative lens unit and a second positive lens unit changes, and a distance between the first positive lens unit and the second negative lens unit widens more at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the first positive lens unit includes an object-side sub-lens unit and an image-side sub-lens unit, and an aperture stop is disposed between the object-side sub-lens unit and the image-side sub-lens unit, and the first negative lens unit includes a negative lens and a positive lens, and a refracting surface nearest to an image in the first negative lens unit is concave toward the image side, and a refracting surface nearest to an object in the second positive lens unit is concave toward the object side, and a refracting surface nearest to the image in the second positive lens unit is convex toward the image side, and the zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.

Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus using the same

A telephoto lens includes in order from an object side, a first unit having a positive refractive power, a second unit having a negative refractive power, and a third unit having a positive refractive power, and a focusing from an infinite object point to an object point at a short distance is carried out by moving the second unit toward an image side, and the following conditional expression (17) is satisfied:0.2&#x3c;&#x3c;0.32&#x2003;&#x2003;(17)

Telephoto lens and image pickup apparatus using the same

A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a wide angle end, and an aperture stop is disposed on an image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on an object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit, and the zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions.

A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than at a wide angle end. An aperture stop is disposed on the image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on the object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit. The second lens unit includes two sub lens units. The object-side sub lens unit in the second lens unit includes one lens component. The following conditional expressions are satisfied.3.0&#x3c;&#x394;&#x3c;4.51.05&#x3c;||&#x3c;2.1

A zoom lens includes a first positive lens unit, a first negative lens unit, a stop, and a second positive lens unit, and at the time of zooming, the first positive lens unit is stationary, the first negative lens unit and the second positive lens unit move, and at the time of focusing, the first positive lens unit is stationary, and the first positive lens unit includes a reflecting member and a first positive lens unit object-side system, and the first positive lens unit-object side system is positioned on the object side of the reflecting member, and has a negative refractive power, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied.3.7&#x3c;1.55&#x3c;||&#x3c;2.51.75&#x3c;||&#x3c;2.5

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