Lens apparatus and camera
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKanji Tsuji
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Abstract
A lens apparatus is disclosed which allows a reduced overall length when it is put into a barrel body while a high magnification of taken images is realized. The lens apparatus includes a first holding member which holds a first lens unit; a second holding member which holds a second lens unit disposed closer to an image plane side than the first lens unit; a first cam member which has a first cam portion driving the first holding member in an optical axis direction; a second cam member which has a second cam portion driving the first cam member in the optical axis direction; and a third cam member which includes a third cam portion driving the second holding member in the optical axis direction.
Claims7
A lens apparatus comprising:
- a first holding member which holds a first lens unit;
- a second holding member which holds a second lens unit disposed closer to an image plane side than the first lens unit;
- a first cam barrel which includes a first cam portion driving the first holding member in an optical axis direction;
- a second cam barrel which includes a second cam portion driving the first cam barrel in the optical axis direction;
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- a third cam barrel member different from the second cam barrel, which includes a third cam portion driving the second holding member in the optical axis direction,
- wherein the lens apparatus can perform a zoom operation in a state where the lens apparatus protrudes from a main body and perform a housing operation in which the lens apparatus is housed into the main body,
- wherein the first and second cam portions have shapes for moving the first holding member during the zoom operation along a trajectory which is convex toward one side of the optical axis direction, and
- wherein the third cam portion has a shape for moving the second holding member during the zoom operation along a trajectory different from the moving trajectory of the first holding member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.