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20100157104 | Image pickup apparatus - An apparatus includes a zoom lens and an image pickup element. The zoom lens includes an optical path reflecting lens group including a reflecting member and having a positive refracting power, a movable negative lens group that is disposed in the optical path on the image side of the optical path reflecting lens group, has a negative refracting power, and moves during zooming, a movable positive lens group that is disposed in the optical path on the image side of the movable negative lens group, has a positive refracting power, and moves during zooming, and an aperture stop disposed in the optical path between the movable negative lens group and the movable positive lens group. The optical path reflecting lens group is a lens group located closest to the object side in the zoom lens. | 06-24-2010 |
20110128416 | Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus equipped with same - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, an object side lens group having a negative refracting power at the wide angle end and including at least one negative lens unit, and an image side lens group having a positive refracting power at the wide angle end and including at least one positive lens unit including a cemented doublet lens component. The distance between the two lens groups is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The cemented doublet lens component includes, in order from the object side, a negative object side lens having a concave surface facing the image side, and positive image side lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the image side. The cemented doublet lens component is located closest to the image side in the positive lens unit. The zoom lens satisfies specific conditions. | 06-02-2011 |
20110157430 | Image pickup apparatus having optical path reflecting zoom lens - An image pickup apparatus includes a zoom lens, and an image pickup element having an image pickup surface which receives optically an image formed by the zoom lens, and which converts the image received to an electric signal. The image pickup apparatus satisfies the following conditional expressions (1), (2), and (3). | 06-30-2011 |
20120008214 | Image pickup apparatus having optical path reflecting zoom lens - An image pickup apparatus includes a zoom lens, and an image pickup element having an image pickup surface which receives an image which has been formed by the zoom lens, and converts to an electric signal. When an object having a uniform brightness is captured, at any state from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the zoom lens satisfies conditional expression (A). The image pickup apparatus includes a shading correction parameter storage section which stores a shading correction parameter which differs at a front-surface side and a rear-surface side with respect to a center of an image, which is for correcting asymmetric shading at the front-surface side and the rear-surface side of the zoom lens, and
| 01-12-2012 |
20120300096 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens comprises in order from an object side, a first lens unit, a second lens unit, a third lens unit, a fourth lens unit, and a fifth lens unit having, respectively, a positive, negative, positive, negative, and positive refractive power. At the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the first, third, and fourth lens units move toward the object side. A distance between the first and second lens units increase, a distance between the second and third lens units decrease, a distance between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit changes, and a distance between the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit increases. The zoom lens satisfies the following expressions: | 11-29-2012 |
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20080204892 | Zoom lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same - In a zoom lens system, at a time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, when focused on an object at a longest distance, at the telephoto end, a first lens unit moves to be positioned more toward an object side, than at a wide angle end, at the telephoto end, a second lens unit moves to be positioned more toward an image side, than at the wide angle end, at the telephoto end, an aperture stop and a third lens unit moves to be positioned more toward the object side, than at the wide angle end, and a combined system of the first lens unit and the second lens unit at the wide angle end has a negative refracting power, and at the time of zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit is positioned more toward the object side than a position of the second lens unit at the wide angle end, and the first lens unit moves to be positioned more toward the object side, than at the wide angle end, at the intermediate zoom state, and in the intermediate zoom state, the aperture stop, the third lens unit, and an object point of the third lens unit move to be positioned more toward the object side, than at the wide angle end, and the zoom lens system satisfies predetermined conditional expressions. | 08-28-2008 |
20080231969 | Zoom lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same - A zoom lens system includes a rear lens group having in order from an object side, a first lens unit G | 09-25-2008 |
20080291544 | Zoom lens system - A zoom lens system which includes, in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a space between the lens units is changed to perform magnification change; a lens of the second lens unit closest to an image side has a concave surface which faces the image side; a lens of the third lens unit closest to the object side is a negative lens whose concave surface faces the object side; and during the magnification change, the space between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is larger in a telephoto end than in a wide-angle end. | 11-27-2008 |
20090174950 | Zoom lens and imaging apparatus incorporating the same - A zoom lens comprises, in order from its object side, a first lens group of positive refracting power, a second lens group of negative refracting power, and a third lens group of positive refracting power located on an image side with respect to the second lens group. Upon zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group grows wider at the telephoto end than at the wide-angle end, and the spacing between the second lens group and the third lens group becomes narrower at the telephoto end than at the wide-angle end. The first lens group comprises a negative lens and a positive lens, and the number of the negative lens in the first lens group is only one. At least one positive lens in the first lens group satisfies the following conditions (1) and (2): | 07-09-2009 |
20090174951 | Zoom lens and imaging apparatus incorporating the same - A zoom lens comprises, in order from its object side, a front lens group having negative refracting power at a wide-angle end and a rear lens group having positive refracting power at the wide-angle end. The front lens group comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens group of positive refracting power and a second lens group of negative refracting power, and the rear lens group comprises, in order from the object side, a third lens group of positive refracting power and a fourth lens group of positive refracting power. There is an aperture stop interposed between the lens surface located in, and nearest to the object side of, the second lens group and the lens surface located in, and nearest to the image size of, the third lens group. Upon zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group grows wide, the spacing between the second lens group and the third lens group becomes narrow, the spacing between the third lens group and the fourth lens group changes, and an F-number grows greatest when the aperture stop is open in the course of zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end. | 07-09-2009 |
20090174952 | Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus equipped with same - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side thereof, a first lens unit G | 07-09-2009 |