Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hirofumi Abe

Kenta Sudo

Nobuyuki Miyazawa

Shinji Yamasaki

Yu Inomoto

Masakazu Kodaira

Kazuki Someya

A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a subsequent unit. The first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. A distance between each pair of adjacent lens units changes in zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus

A zoom lens includes, in order from object side, a negative first unit, a positive second unit, a negative third unit, and a positive fourth unit, wherein, for zooming to telephoto end, the second unit moves toward object side, the third unit moves and an interval between each pair of adjacent units is changed, wherein, at telephoto end as compared to wide angle end, the interval between the first and second units is smaller, the interval between the second and third units is larger, the interval between the third and fourth units is larger, and the fourth unit is positioned closer to image side, wherein the third unit consists of a single optical element, wherein the fourth unit includes plural lenses arranged at intervals, and wherein focal lengths of the third and fourth units and the interval between the third and fourth units at telephoto end are appropriately set.

Zoom lens, and image pickup apparatus and image pickup system including the zoom lens

A zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a first positive lens unit; a second negative lens unit; a third positive lens unit; a fourth negative lens unit; and a fifth positive lens unit, wherein during zooming from a wide angle end, intervals between the adjacent lens units are changed in such a way that the second lens unit is configured to move from the object side to the image side and the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit are configured to move, and a focal length of the third lens unit, a focal length of the fourth lens unit, a movement amount of the second lens unit during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, and a movement amount of the third lens unit during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end are appropriately set.

Zoom lens, image pickup apparatus including zoom lens, and image pickup system

A dome cover for covering a camera, the dome cover includes a spherical part and an aspherical part. The spherical part and the aspherical part have a boundary, where the spherical part and the aspherical part are adjacent to each other, on each of a front surface and a back surface of the dome cover. The aspherical part has a shape symmetrical with respect to a rotation around a rotation axis including a center of a sphere of the spherical part. On a section including the rotation axis, a distance from the rotation axis to the aspherical part increases as a position of the aspherical part becomes more distant from the boundary, an angle formed between the rotation axis and a line segment connecting the center of the sphere and the boundary on the front surface is less than 90&#xb0;. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Dome cover, image pickup apparatus, and image pickup system

A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit does not move and the second lens unit and the third lens unit move in mutually different loci during zooming. Conditional expressions are satisfied as follows:0.05&#x3c;|2/2|&#x3c;0.59, and0.20&#x3c;|3/3|&#x3c;1.95,where f2 is a focal length of the second lens unit, f3 is a focal length of the third lens unit, m2 is a moving amount of the second lens unit during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, and m3 is a moving amount of the third lens unit during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end.

Zoom lens, image pickup apparatus including the same, and control device for the same

Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side, first to fourth lens units having positive, negative, positive, and positive refractive powers, respectively. In the zoom lens, during zooming, the first lens unit and the third lens unit do not move, and the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move with loci different from each other, the first lens unit consists of, in order from the object side to the image side, a negative lens G, a positive lens G, and a positive lens G, and an Abbe number &#x3bd;of a material of the negative lens G, an average value Nave of refractive indices of materials of three lenses included in the first lens unit, a focal length fof the first lens unit, and a focal length fof the second lens unit are appropriately set.

Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same

Provided is a zoom lens, comprising, in order from object side to image side: first positive, second negative and third positive lens units and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit, in which: at telephoto end as compared to wide angle end, an interval between first and second lens units is increased, and an interval between second and third lens units is reduced; an interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming; the first lens unit consists, in order from object side to image side, of a first positive lens sub-unit, and a second negative lens sub-unit over a widest air interval; and a focal length ft of zoom lens at telephoto end, a focal length fof first lens sub-unit, a lateral magnification &#x3b2;of second lens sub-unit, and a lateral magnification &#x3b2;of second lens unit at telephoto end are appropriately set.

A zoom lens includes: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, in which the first lens unit and the fifth lens unit do not move for zooming, and the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move during zooming, in which a focal length fw of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length f2 of the second lens unit, and a focal length of a positive lens, which is included in the second lens unit are suitably set.

A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side: first to fifth lens units respectively having positive, negative, positive, positive, and positive or negative refractive powers. The first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming, and the second, third, and fourth lens units are configured to move during zooming to change an interval between adjacent lens units. An aperture stop is arranged between the second and third lens units. The second lens unit is positioned on the image side and the third lens unit is positioned on the object side at a telephoto end. Focal lengths of the zoom lens at a wide angle end and of the third and fourth lens units, lateral magnifications of a lens group consisting of the third and fourth lens units at the wide angle end and at the telephoto end are each appropriately set.

Provided is a zoom lens, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: first to fifth lens units having positive, negative, positive, positive, and negative refractive powers, respectively. During zooming, the first, third, and fifth lens units are immovable, and the second and fourth lens units are moved. The fifth lens unit includes a partial unit (L) having a negative refractive power, and a partial unit (L) having a positive refractive power. An entire lens length (TL), a focal length (ft) of an entire system at a telephoto end, a focal length (f) of the second lens unit, a focal length (f) of the fourth lens unit, and a focal length (f) of the partial unit (L) are set appropriately.

An image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side; a negative front lens unit; a stop; and a positive rear lens unit, wherein the front lens unit includes a negative front first lens, a negative front second lens, and a positive front third lens, in order from the object side, wherein the rear lens unit includes a positive rear first lens having at least one aspherical surface and a cemented lens made up of a positive rear second lens and a negative rear third lens, in order from the object side, and wherein an Abbe constant of a positive lens disposed on the most object side, an Abbe constant of a negative lens disposed on the most image side, a focal length of the front lens unit, and a focal length of the rear lens unit are appropriately set.

Image pickup lens and image pickup apparatus including the same

A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a positive first lens unit, a negative second lens unit, an aperture stop, a positive third lens unit, and a positive fourth lens unit. The third lens unit includes, in that order, a positive first lens sub-unit, and a negative second lens sub-unit. The second lens sub-unit is movable in a direction having a component perpendicular to an optical axis to change an image forming position in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. A distance on the optical axis between the aperture stop and the third lens unit at a wide-angle end, a composite focal length of the first lens unit and the second lens unit at the wide-angle end, a focal length of the first lens sub-unit, and a focal length of the second lens sub-unit are appropriately set.

Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus equipped with the same

A light quantity adjustment device includes: an aperture mechanism that varies an aperture opening through drive of aperture blades to restrict a quantity of light that passes through the aperture opening; and an ND filter inserted in and removed from an optical path on a light incident side or a light exit side of the aperture opening. The ND filter has a distribution of transmittance in which the transmittance differs in a direction of interposition of the ND filter in the optical path of the aperture opening, and includes a recessed portion formed by recessing a center portion of a distal-end region of the ND filter on a side of interposition in the optical path of the aperture opening in a direction opposite the direction of interposition.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Hirofumi Abe