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Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2015
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshihisa Tashiro, Nikko, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/163 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G02B 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0025 (2013.01); G02B 15/163 (2013.01); G02B 15/173 (2013.01);
Abstract

A zoom lens including: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and a positive rear lens group, an interval of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, the rear lens group includes from an object side: a positive lens system; an aperture stop; and a negative partial lens system, the first lens unit and the aperture stop are positioned closer to the object side at a telephoto end than at a wide angle end, and a combined focal length of a front lens system between the first lens unit and the aperture stop at the wide angle end, an absolute value of a distance on an optical axis from a first lens surface to the aperture stop at the wide angle end, a focal length of the first lens unit, and a focal length of the zoom lens at the wide angle end is appropriately set.


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