Inner focus macrolens and image pickup device using the same
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorMasaru Morooka
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Abstract
This disclosure is directed to an inner focus macrolens. The inner focus macrolens can include sequentially from an object side, a first lens unit, an aperture stop, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit comprises a negative lens as the closest powered lens to the object side and a positive lens, the second lens unit comprises an object side negative lens as the closest powered lens to the object side and a positive lens, the third lens unit comprises a negative lens, and the fourth lens unit comprises a positive lens.
Claims17
An inner focus macrolens comprising sequentially from an object side:
- a first lens unit;
- an aperture stop;
- a second lens unit having a positive refractive power;
- a third lens unit having a negative refractive power;
- and
- a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein
- the first lens unit comprises a negative lens as the closest powered lens to the object side and a positive lens,
- the second lens unit comprises sequentially from the object side:
- a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the image side, a positive meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the image side, and a biconvex positive lens,
- the third lens unit comprises a negative lens,
- the fourth lens unit comprises a positive lens,
- wherein focusing is performed by moving the third lens unit toward an image side, and the inner focus macrolens satisfies conditional expressions (1) and (2):
- −5<=(1−β32)×β42<=−2 (1)
- −4<=(R2f+R2r)/(R2f−R2r)<=0.4 (2)
- wherein beta3 is a lateral magnification of the third lens unit in focusing on an infinity object, beta4 is a lateral magnification of the fourth lens unit in focusing on the infinity object, R2f is a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the object side negative lens, and R2r is a radius of curvature of an image side surface of the object side negative lens.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.