Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuya Shimomura, Fumiaki Usui
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuya Shimomura, Fumiaki Usui
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A zoom lens including, in order from object side: a positive first unit fixed for zooming; a negative second unit moving for zooming; a zoom unit including at least one unit moving for zooming; a stop; and a fixed unit. The first unit includes a negative first sub-unit not moving for focusing, and a positive second sub-unit and a positive third sub-unit moving toward image side and object side, respectively, when focusing from infinity object to proximity object. A focal lengths of the first and second units, a distance from a vertex of a surface closest to the image side in the first unit to an image side principal point position of the first unit, a thickness of the first unit on an optical axis, and lateral magnifications of the second and third sub-units when focusing on infinity object are appropriately set.
A zoom lens comprising, in order from an object side to an image side:
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
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