Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomoya Yamada, Yonghee Lee, Yu Inomoto
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomoya Yamada, Yonghee Lee, Yu Inomoto
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A zoom lens includes, in order from object side, a positive first lens unit not moving for zooming, three or more intermediate lens units moving for zooming and a positive rear lens unit, in which each interval between adjacent lens units changes during zooming, an aperture stop is arranged in the rear lens unit, in a lens unit adjacent to the rear lens unit, or between the lens unit adjacent to the rear lens unit and the rear lens unit, the first lens unit includes, in order from the object side, negative subunit not moving for focusing, positive subunit moving for focusing, and positive subunit, a focal length of the first lens unit, a length on optical axis from most image-side surface to a rear principal point of the first lens unit, focal lengths of the zoom lens at wide angle end and at telephoto end are appropriately set.
A zoom lens comprising in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power that does not move for zooming, three or more intermediate lens units that move during zooming, and a rear lens unit having a positive refractive power,
An image pickup apparatus comprising a zoom lens, and
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