Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shunji Iwamoto

Shinichiro Saito

Takahiro Hatada

Satoshi Maetaki

Suguru Inoue

Tadanori Okada

Makoto Nakahara

Masato Katayose

Hideki Sakai

A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, and a rear group including at least four lens units that move during zooming. Distances between adjacent lens units change during zooming. The first lens unit is fixed relative to an image plane during zooming and during focusing. The first lens unit includes at least three lenses having positive refractive powers. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus

An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive or negative refractive power, a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having negative refractive power. During focusing from infinity to the shortest distance, the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move, the first lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fifth lens unit do not move. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same including five lens units of +−++− or +−−+− refractive powers

An optical system 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 positive refractive power. During image stabilization, the second lens unit is moved in a direction including a component in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system, and the first lens unit and the third lens unit are fixed. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same

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, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear unit having a plurality of lens units, and distances change between adjacent lens units during zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

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 power, and a rear unit having a positive refractive power as a whole and including one or more lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes a first subunit having a positive refractive power and a second subunit disposed on the image side of the first subunit. The first subunit includes a first positive lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among lenses included in the first subunit. The second subunit includes a second positive lens and a first negative lens having the smallest absolute value of a focal length among negative lenses included in the second subunit. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Zoom lens

The lens apparatus includes an optical system, a voltage transformation unit, and an actuator. A first lens unit of the optical system is moved toward the object side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The voltage transformation unit includes coils. The actuator is configured to be driven by a voltage output from the voltage transformation unit and to move a part of the lens units in the optical system during focusing. The coil is disposed at a position that is separated from a position of a most object-side surface of the optical system at the wide-angle end, toward the image side by a maximum or more moving amount of the first lens unit, and is closer to the object side than a most image-side surface of the optical system at the wide-angle end.

Lens apparatus and camera system

A zoom lens Lincludes a first lens unit Lhaving a positive refractive power, a second lens unit Lhaving a negative refractive power, a third lens unit Lhaving a positive refractive power, an intermediate lens group LM including a plurality of lens units, and a last lens unit LR having a negative refractive power. An interval between the adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The zoom lens Lincludes an aperture stop SP. The intermediate lens group LM includes a negative lens unit LN having a negative refractive power. Both the negative lens unit LN and the last lens unit LR move to an object side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The zoom lens Lsatisfies predetermined conditional inequalities.

Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same

An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, and a second lens unit having negative refractive power, wherein the first lens unit moves and the second lens unit does not move during focusing, wherein the first lens unit includes a positive lens arranged closest on the object side of the first lens unit, wherein the second lens unit includes three or more lenses including at least two negative lenses, wherein the first lens unit consists of a first subunit having positive refractive power, a second subunit having negative refractive power, and a third subunit having positive refractive power arranged in order from the object side to the image side, and wherein predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

Optical system and image pickup apparatus including the same

An optical system includes one or more positive lenses and one or more negative lenses. The first positive lens is a positive lens disposed closest to an object among the one or more positive lenses. The first negative lens is a negative lens that is disposed on an image side of the first positive lens and disposed closest to the object among the one or more negative lenses. At least one of an object side surface and an image side surface of the first positive lens is an aspherical surface. At this time, a relationship between a total lens length of the optical system La focal length of the optical system Land a distance Dpn on an optical axis from the image side surface of the first positive lens to an object side surface of the first negative lens is defined.

Optical system and imaging apparatus

An optical system 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 positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. The second lens unit moves during focusing and a distance between adjacent lens units changes. The second lens unit includes a cemented lens closest to an object. The cemented lens includes a positive lens and a negative lens disposed on the image side of the positive lens. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Optical system and imaging apparatus having the same

The zoom lens according to the present invention includes a plurality of lens units consisting of front and rear groups having negative and positive refractive powers at a wide angle end (WAE), respectively. An interval between front and rear groups on an optical axis is longest among all intervals between adjacent ones of plurality of lens units at WAE. The rear group is disposed at an image side of front group and includes a plurality of lens units including a negative lens unit LN (LULN) disposed closest to image side. The LULN includes negative and positive lenses disposed closest to object and image sides in LULN, respectively. A focal length of LULN, a focal length of zoom lens at WAE, a distance on optical axis between a lens surface closest to object side and that closest to image side in LULN, and a back focus at WAE are appropriately set.

An optical system used in an imaging apparatus includes an optical element. In a case where the optical element is disposed on a magnification side with respect to an intersection point of an optical axis and a chief paraxial ray, the optical element is a negative lens, and in a case where the optical element is disposed on a reduction side with respect to the intersection point, the optical element is a positive lens. The optical element is configured to satisfy all of the following conditional expressions:30&#x2264;&#x3bd;&#x2264;401.225&#x2264;[&#x2212;(14.387/&#x3bd;)]&#x2264;1.2760.4300&#x2264;[&#x3b8;&#x2212;(2.9795/&#x3bd;)]&#x2264;0.5010,where &#x3bd;d represents an Abbe number of the optical element, &#x3b8;gF is a partial dispersion ratio of the optical element for g-line and F-line, and nd is a refractive index of the optical element for d-line.

Optical system and optical apparatus including the same

A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side: a positive first unit; a negative second unit; and a rear group. The rear group includes: a positive object-side unit, which is arranged closest to the object side; a negative rear-side unit, which is arranged closest to the image side in the zoom lens; and a negative middle unit, which is arranged adjacent to the rear-side unit and on the object side of the rear-side unit. The first unit, the middle unit, and the rear-side unit are configured to move toward the object side during zooming from a wide angle end. Further, focal lengths of the second unit and the middle unit, movement amounts of the middle unit, the rear-side unit, the object-side unit, and the first unit during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end are each appropriately set.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Shunji Iwamoto