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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2010
Yasunori Touchi, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiaki Kurioka, Osaka, JP;
Shunichiro Yoshinaga, Hyogo, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma-shi, JP;
Abstract
A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a positive first lens unit, a negative second lens unit, a positive third lens unit, and a positive fourth lens unit, wherein the first lens unit is composed of a cemented lens element of one object side negative lens element and one image side positive lens element, the fourth lens unit is composed of one lens element, in zooming, the first to fourth lens units are individually moved along an optical axis so that air spaces between the respective lens units vary for magnification change, and the conditions: vd<43.50 and f/f≧6.0 (vd: an Abbe number of the positive lens element in the first lens unit, fand f: focal lengths of the entire system at a telephoto limit and a wide-angle limit) are satisfied; an imaging device; and a camera.