Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus equipped with same

Abstract

An image forming optical system characterized by comprising a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, and third and subsequent lens groups having a positive composite refracting power, wherein the first lens group is composed of a cemented lens made up of one positive lens and one negative lens arranged in order from the object side, and the image forming optical system satisfies the following conditional expressions (1-1) and (2-1): 0.05<T1g/Flt<0.10  (1-1) 0.50<θgF<0.75  (2-1) where T1g is the thickness of the first lens group on the optical axis, Flt is the focal length of the entire image forming optical system at the telephoto end, and θgF is the partial dispersion ratio (ng1−nF1)/(nF1−nC1) of the negative lens, where nd1, nC1, nF1, and ng1 are refractive indices of the negative lens respectively for the d-line, C-line, F-line, and g-line.

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