Abstract:
A wide-angle lens system comprising, in order from the object side, a front unit, a stop and a rear unit: the front unit comprising, in order from the object side, a first lens unit which comprises a plurality of lens components including a positive lens component and has a negative refractive power as a whole, a negative lens component having a concave surface on the object side and a cemented lens component; and the rear unit comprising a negative lens component disposed on the side of the stop and at least two positive lens components. This wide-angle lens system has sufficiently corrected aberrations, in particular, negative distortion, curvature of field and sagittal coma.
Abstract:
A light-weight zoom lens system manufacturable at a low cost comprising, in the order from the object side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power and a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power, and adapted in such a manner that said first lens unit and said fourth lens unit are fixed at the zooming time, whereas said second lens unit and said third lens unit are shifted along the optical axis while varying the airspace reserved therebetween. Said second lens unit comprises one or two lens elements and said third lens unit comprises a single lens element, whereby said zoom lens system comprises a small number of lens elements.
Abstract:
A compact, thin and low-cost image-forming optical system having an optical low-pass filter, and an apparatus using the image-forming optical system. The image-forming optical system for forming an image of an object includes a stop (2), a first prism (10) placed closer to the object side than the stop (2), and a second prism (20) placed closer to the image side than the stop (2). The first prism (10) has object-side reflecting surfaces (12, 13) with an aspherical surface configuration that reflect a light beam in the prism and give a power to the light beam when reflecting it. The second prism (20) has image-side reflecting surfaces (22, 23) with an aspherical surface configuration that reflect a light beam in the prism and give a power to the light beam when reflecting it. A low-pass filter (4) for cutting off a high-frequency component is provided between the object-side reflecting surfaces (12, 13) and the image-side reflecting surfaces (22, 23).
Abstract:
A real-image finder optical system having an objective optical system, an image-inverting optical system, and an ocular optical system, wherein a power is given to a reflecting surface of the image-inverting optical system that is closer to the observer side than an intermediate image, thereby achieving an increase in the finder magnification. The objective optical system has a plurality of lens units. When zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end is performed, the spacing between the plurality of lens units is changed. The image-inverting optical system has a plurality of reflecting surfaces. Of the reflecting surfaces, at least one reflecting surface closer to the ocular optical system than the object image is formed from a curved reflecting surface that gives a power to a light beam. The image-inverting optical system has a rotationally asymmetric surface that corrects rotationally asymmetric decentration aberrations produced by the curved reflecting surface.
Abstract:
A compact vari-focal lens system comprising, in the order from the object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and uses at least one radial type graded refractive index lens element arranged at the image side location in the second lens unit. The vari-focal lens system has a high vari-focal ratio and aberrations corrected favorably over the entire vari-focal range from the wide position to the tele position, and consists of a very small number of lens elements.
Abstract:
An optical system comprising a plural number of lens elements at least one of which is designed as a graded refractive index lens element having refractive index distribution in the radial direction, and has aberrations favorably corrected in said optical system as a whole by making most of the correcting functions of the graded refractive index lens element for Petzval's sum and chromatic aberration.
Abstract:
The invention provides a compact, light-weight varifocal lens system that has a varifocal ratio of about 3, comprises fewer lenses than in the prior art, has a short total length and is well corrected in terms of various aberrations from the wide angle to telephoto ends. This lens system comprises a first positive lens unit G1, a second positive lens unit G2 and a third negative lens unit G3, wherein varifocal motion is achieved by moving each unit in such a way that, from the wide angle to telephoto ends, the air space between the first and second lens units increases, while the air space between the second and third lens units decreases.
Abstract:
A large-aperture quasi-telephone lens system having favorably corrected aberrations, especially chromatic aberration, and providing images of high quality comprising, in the order from the object side, a front lens group, a stop and a rear lens group, said rear lens group consisting of a lens component having negative refractive power and a lens group having positive refractive power, and comprising at least one graded refractive index lens element.
Abstract:
A variable focal length lens system comprising a plurality of lens units, arranged with an imaging lens unit with a positive refractive power being located at the image side, and at least one lens unit being movable to change an airspace for varying focal length. The positive lens unit for image formation is made of at least one radial GRIN lens, arranged to distribute a stop at the object side of said lens unit. By utilizing a lesser numbers of lenses, it is possible for this vari-focal lens to have simpler processing, assembly, and adjustment of lenses and lens burrels with an efficient performance.
Abstract:
A compact zoom lens system with a zooming ratio of about 2 and a large aperture ratio comprises, in order from the object side, a front lens group having a positive refracting power and a rear lens group having a negative refracting power, which is arranged to be zoomed by varying the space between the both lens groups, and in which the front lens group comprises a negative lens component and a positive lens component and the rear lens group comprises a positive lens component and a negative lens component so that this lens system comprises four components as a whole.