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US 12,572,001 B2Granted
Zoom lens and image capture apparatus having the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroki Ebe, Shunji Iwamoto
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Abstract
A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and two or more additional lens units. In zooming, the first lens unit moves, and an interval between adjacent lens units changes. The refractive index of a negative lens A disposed on a most object side of negative lenses included in the first lens unit is higher than or equal to 1.89, and the negative lens A and a lens B disposed adjacent to an image side of the negative lens A satisfy a predetermined relationship.
Claims12
A zoom lens comprising:
- a first lens unit having a negative refractive power;
- a second lens unit having a positive refractive power;
- and
- a rear group including two or more lens units, wherein
- the first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the rear group are disposed in order from an object side toward an image side,
- wherein a total number of lens units arranged in the zoom lens is five or more,
- in zooming, the first lens unit is arranged to move, and each interval between adjacent lens units changes,
- the rear group includes all lens units arranged on the image side of the second lens unit in the zoom lens,
- a refractive index of a negative lens A disposed closest to an object, among negative lenses included in the first lens unit, is greater than or equal to 1.89, and
- the following inequalities are satisfied:
- 2.0<Ra/Da<100;
- 10<Rb/Db<100;
- −3.5<fa/fw<−1.5;
- 0.15<GL/TL<0.30;
- and
- −20<100×(y−y0)/y0<−8
- where a radius of curvature of an image-side lens surface of the negative lens A is Ra, a radius of curvature of an object-side lens surface of a lens B disposed adjacent to the image side of the negative lens A is Rb, an air gap between the negative lens A and the lens B is Da, an air gap between the lens B and a lens disposed adjacent to the image side of the lens B is Db, a focal length of the negative lens A is fa, a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end is fw, a distance from a lens surface closest to the object, among lens surfaces of the first lens unit, to a lens surface closest to an image plane, among the lens surfaces of the first lens unit, is GL, a distance from a lens surface closest to the object, among lens surfaces of the zoom lens, to the image plane at the wide angle end is TL, a maximum real image height at the wide angle end is y, and an ideal image height with a maximum view angle of the zoom lens at the wide angle end is y0.
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