Photographing lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device

A photographing lens assembly comprising a total of eight lens elements, and the eight lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element;

• wherein the first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, the second lens element has negative refractive power, the eighth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and at least one lens element of the photographing lens assembly has at least one lens surface having at least one inflection point;
• wherein a focal length of the photographing lens assembly is f, a focal length of the first lens element is f1, a focal length of the second lens element is f2, a focal length of the third lens element is f3, a focal length of the fourth lens element is f4, a focal length of the fifth lens element is f5, a focal length of the sixth lens element is f6, a focal length of the eighth lens element is f8, an axial distance between the object-side surface of the first lens element and an image surface is TL, a maximum image height of the photographing lens assembly is ImgH, an axial distance between an image-side surface of the eighth lens element and the image surface is BL, an f-number of the photographing lens assembly is Fno, a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the sixth lens element is R12, and the following conditions are satisfied:
• |f1/f8|<1.60;
• |f/f3|+|f/f4|+|f/f5|+|f/f6|<1.65;
• 0.50<TL/ImgH<1.30;
• 4.0<ImgH/BL<20.0;
• 0.8<Fno<2.05;
• f/f2<−0.45;
• and
• 0≤f/R12.