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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2013
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Toshio Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kodama, Tokyo, JP;
Kento Hara, Tokyo, JP;
Kazumi Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A zoom lens includes a frontmost lens unit, which is located closest to the object side and a plurality of lens units located closer to the image side than the frontmost lens unit. All the distances between adjacent lens units vary during zooming in the state in which the zoom lens is focused on an object at infinity. One of the plurality of lens units is a first focusing lens unit. During focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a short distance in a first shooting mode, only the first focusing lens unit moves. During focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a short distance in a second shooting mode, two lens units in the zoom lens move.