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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2013
Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masakazu Saori, Saitama, JP;
Yoshimitsu Ohara, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group. The second and third lens groups are moved during zooming. The first lens group includes a positive first sub-lens group which does not move during a focusing operation, and a positive second sub-lens group which moves during the focusing operation. The first sub-lens group includes at least one negative lens element, the second sub-lens group is a positive single lens element, and the following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied:60<νd1b<75   (1),andνd1a<24  (2),wherein νd1b and νd1a_designates Abbe numbers at the d-line of the positive single lens element of the second sub-lens group and at the d-line of the negative lens element within the first sub-lens group, respectively.