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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power. During zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, air spacing between the first and second lens groups increases, air spacing between the second and third lens groups decreases, spacing between the third and fourth lens groups changes, and spacing between the fourth and fifth lens groups changes. Thus, all the lens groups are moved in an optical axis direction. The zoom lens satisfies the following Conditional Expression (1).1.0<β5≦4.0  (1) Here, β5w is a lateral magnification of the fifth lens group at a wide-angle end.