Image capturing lens and image capturing apparatus provided with the image capturing lens

An image capturing lens substantially consisting of five lenses, composed of:

• a first lens having a convex surface on the object side near the optical axis and a positive refractive power near the optical axis with an aspherical shape on at least one surface;
• a second lens having a concave surface on the image side near the optical axis and a negative refractive power near the optical axis with an aspherical shape on at least one surface;
• a third lens having a positive refractive power near the optical axis with an aspherical shape on at least one surface;
• a fourth lens having a negative refractive power near the optical axis with an aspherical shape on at least one surface;
• and
• a fifth lens which is a meniscus lens having a concave surface on the image side near the optical axis and a negative refractive power near the optical axis with an aspherical shape on at least one surface, arranged in this order from the object side,
• wherein the image capturing lens is configured to satisfy conditional expressions given below:
• 2<f3/f1<20 (2);
• 1.10<|f4/f5| (3);
• and
• νd4<35 (4),
• where:
• νd4 is an Abbe number of the fourth lens with respect to the d-line;
• f1 is a focal length of the first lens;
• f3 is a focal length of the third lens;
• f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens;
• and
• f5 is a focal length of the fifth lens.