Taking lens apparatus

A taking lens apparatus comprising:

• a zoom lens system for focusing light from an object so as to form an optical image;
• an image-sensing device for converting the optical image formed by said zoom lens system into an electric signal;
• and
• an optical low-pass filter, disposed in an optical path on the object side of said image-sensing device, for optically controlling a predetermined spatial frequency component included in the optical image formed by said zoom lens system,
• wherein said zoom lens system comprises, from an object side:
• a first lens unit having a positive optical power and composed of three or fewer lens elements in total including at least one negative lens element and at least one positive lens element;
• a second lens unit having a negative optical power and moving, during zooming, in such a way as to be located always on an image-plane side of a position in which said second lens unit is located in a shortest-focal-length condition;
• and
• one or more succeeding lens units,
• wherein said zoom lens system permits a magnification to be varied by varying distances between said lens units
• wherein said zoom lens system fulfills the following conditions:
• 0.92<FW/IH<1.85;
• ND<1.53;
• and
• VD>78,
• where
• FW represents a focal length of said zoom lens system in the shortest-focal-length condition;
• IH represents a maximum image height;
• ND represents a refractive index for d line of at least one positive lens element included in said first lens unit;
• and
• VD represents an Abbe number for d line of at least one positive lens element included in said first lens unit.