Wide-angle lens

Claim 2

A wide-angle lens comprising in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the object side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power and a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side, wherein the following conditions are satisfied: ≦ f1/f0≦9, 3≦-f1/f2≦9, 0<f2B/f2A≦0.9, wherein, f0 is a focal length of a lens system including said first and second lens groups, f1 is the focal length of said first lens group, f2 is a focal length of said second lens group, f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group.

Claim 3

A wide-angle lens according to claim 1, wherein said second unit of said second lens group comprises a biconvex lens and a negative lens and the following condition is satisfied: 0.3≦f.sub.P /f2≦1.2, wherein f P is a focal length of said biconvex lens.

Claim 4

A wide-angle lens according to claim 2, wherein said second lens group has an aperture diaphragm, at least one lens surface located on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical, a shape of said aspherical surface is set such that a positive refracting power is reduced from the center of a lens toward a periphery of said lens or a negative refracting power is increased from the center of said lens toward the periphery of said lens, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<|AS.sub.I -S.sub.I |/f0<0.15, wherein, AS I is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S I is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS I -S I | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS I and said S I in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system, f0 is the focal length of the whole lens system.

Claim 5

A wide-angle lens according to claim 3, wherein at least one lens surface located on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical and the following condition is satisfied: 0<|AS.sub.o -S.sub.o |/f0<0.2, wherein, AS o is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S o is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference spherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS o -S o | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS o and said S o in the optical direction, f0 is the focal length of the whole lens system.

Claim 6

A wide-angle lens according to claim 4, wherein said first unit of said second lens group comprises at least a negative lens provided closest to the object side and the following condition is satisfied: -8≦q.sub.n ≦-1 q.sub.n =(r.sub.B +r.sub.A)/(r.sub.B -r.sub.A), wherein q N is a shape factor of said negative lens of said second lens group provided closest to the object side, r B is radius of curvature of a surface of said negative lens of said second lens group located on the object side, r A is a radius curvature of a surface of said negative lens of said first unit located on the image side.

Claim 7

A wide-angle lens according to claim 5, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 0.1≦-f2.sub.N /f2≦5, wherein f2 N is a focal length of said negative lens of said second lens group disposed closest to the object side.

Claim 8

A wide-angle lens according to claim 6, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 0.01≦d1/(-f1)≦0.3, wherein d1 is a distance from a lens surface of said first lens group located closest to the object side to a lens surface of said first lens group located closest to the image side on the optical axis.

Claim 9

A wide-angle lens, comprising in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the object side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power and a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side, wherein the following conditions are satisfied: ≦- f1/f2≦9, 0<f2B/f2A<0.9, wherein f1 is a focal length of said first lens group, f2 is a focal length of said second lens group f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group.

Claim 10

A wide-angle lens, comprising in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the object side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power and a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side, wherein the following conditions are satisfied: ≦- f1/f2≦9, 0<f2B/f2A<0.9, wherein f1 is a focal length of said first lens group, f2 is a focal length of said second lens group f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group.

Claim 11

A wide-angle lens comprising in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the object side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power, a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, and an aperture diaphragm, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side, wherein at least one lens surface located on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical, a shape of said at least one aspherical surface is set such that a positive refracting power is reduced from the center of a lens including said aspherical surface toward a periphery of said lens including said aspherical surface or a negative refracting power is increased from the center of said lens including said aspherical surface toward the periphery of said lens including said aspherical surface, and the following conditions are satisfied: < f2B/f2A<0.9, 0<|AS.sub.I -S.sub.I |/f0<0.15, wherein, f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group, AS I is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S I is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS I -S I | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS I and said S I in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system, f0 is the focal length of the whole lens system.

Claim 12

A wide-angle lens comprising in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the object side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power, a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, and an aperture diaphragm, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side, wherein at least one lens surface located on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical, a shape of said at least one aspherical surface is set such that a positive refracting power is reduced from the center of a lens including said aspherical surface toward a periphery of said lens including said aspherical surface or a negative refracting power is increased from the center of said lens including said aspherical surface toward the periphery of said lens including said aspherical surface, and the following conditions are satisfied: < f2B/f2A<0.9, 0<|AS.sub.I -S.sub.I |/f0<0.15, wherein, f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group, AS I is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S I is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS I -S I | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS I and said S I in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system, f0 is the focal length of the whole lens system.

Claim 13

A wide-angle lens comprising in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the object side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power, a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, and an aperture diaphragm, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side, wherein at least one lens surface located on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical and the following conditions are satisfied: < f2B/f2A<0.9, 0<|AS.sub.o -S.sub.o |f0<0.2, wherein, f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group, AS o is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of an effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S o is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS o -S o | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS o and said S o in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system, f0 is the focal length of the whole lens system.

Claim 14

A wide-angle lens comprising in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the object side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power, a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, and an aperture diaphragm, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side, wherein at least one lens surface located on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical and the following conditions are satisfied: < f2B/f2A<0.9, 0<|AS.sub.o -S.sub.o |f0<0.2, wherein, f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group, AS o is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of an effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S o is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS o -S o | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS o and said S o in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system, f0 is the focal length of the whole lens system.

Claim 15

A wide-angle lens comprising: a first lens group having a negative refracting power with a plurality of lenses and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said second lens group having an aperture diaphragm and a plurality of lenses, in the following order from the object side, a first unit with a negative refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power and a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, at least one of plural lens surfaces located on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm being aspherical, at least one of plural lens surfaces located on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm being aspherical.

Claim 16

A wide-angle lens comprising: a first lens group having a negative refracting power with a plurality of lenses and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said second lens group having an aperture diaphragm and a plurality of lenses, in the following order from the object side, a first unit with a negative refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power and a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, at least one of plural lens surfaces located on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm being aspherical, at least one of plural lens surfaces located on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm being aspherical.

Claim 17

A wide-angle lens according to claim 11, wherein said shape of said at least one aspherical surface disposed on the image side of said aperture diaphragm, is set such that a positive refracting power is reduced from a center of a lens including said aspherical surface toward a periphery of said lens including said aspherical surface or a negative refracting power is increased from the center of said lens including said aspherical surface toward the periphery of said lens including said aspherical surface, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<|AS.sub.I -S.sub.I |/f0<0.15, 0<|AS.sub.o -S.sub.o |/f0<0.2, wherein, AS I is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S I is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS I -S I | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS I and said S I in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system, AS o is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of an effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S o is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS o -S o | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS o and said S o in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system, F0 is the focal length of the whole lens system.

Claim 18

A wide-angle lens according to claim 12, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 2≦-f1/f0≦9 0<f2B/f2A<0.9, wherein f1 is a focal length of said first lens group, f0: a focal length of the whole lens system, f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group.

Claim 19

A wide-angle lens consisting of in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the objective side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power and a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, and said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side.

Claim 20

A wide-angle lens consisting of in the following order from the object side: a first lens group having a negative refracting power and being fixed in a focusing operation; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power and being moved in the focusing operation, said first lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power and a second unit with a positive refracting power in that order from the objective side, said second lens group comprising a first unit with a negative refracting power, a second unit with a positive refracting power, a third unit with a negative refracting power and a fourth unit with a positive refracting power, said third unit of said second lens group comprising a cemented lens formed of a lens with a negative refracting power and a lens with a positive refracting power, and said cemented lens forming a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface directed to the image side.

Claim 21

A wide-angle lens according to claim 14, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 2≦-f1/f0≦9, wherein, f1 is the focal length of said first lens group; f0 is a focal length of the whole wide-angle lens system.

Claim 22

A wide-angle lens according to claim 15, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 0<f2B/f2A<0.9, wherein, f2A is a composite focal length of said first unit of said second lens group and said second unit of said second lens group, f2B is a composite focal length of said third unit of said second lens group and said fourth unit of said second lens group.

Claim 23

A wide-angle lens according to claim 16, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 3≦-f1/f2≦9, wherein, f2 is a focal length of said second lens group.

Claim 24

A wide-angle lens according to claim 17, wherein said second unit of said second lens group comprises a bi-convex positive lens and a negative lens, and the following condition is satisfied: 0.3≦f.sub.P /f2≦1.2 wherein, f P is a focal length of said bi-convex positive lens.

Claim 25

A wide-angle lens according to claim 18, wherein said second lens group has an aperture diaphragm, at least one lens surface located on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical, a shape of said aspherical surface is set such that a positive refracting power is reduced from the center of a lens toward a periphery of said lens or a negative refracting power is increased from the center of said lens toward the periphery of said lens, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<|AS.sub.I -S.sub.I |/f0<0.15, wherein, AS I is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the image side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S I is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS I -S I | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS I and said S I in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system.

Claim 26

A wide-angle lens according to claim 19, wherein at least one lens surface located on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm is aspherical and the following condition is satisfied: 0<|AS.sub.o -S.sub.o |/f0<0.2 wherein, AS o is an aspherical surface distance, of an aspherical surface positioned on the object side with respect to said aperture diaphragm, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the aspherical surface with the optical axis to an outermost periphery of an effective diameter of the aspherical surface, S o is a reference spherical surface distance, of a reference aspherical surface having a predetermined apex curvature radius, from a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system at an intersecting point of the reference spherical surface with the optical axis of an outermost periphery of effective diameter of the reference spherical surface, |AS o -S o | is an amount of sag being an amount of a difference between said AS o and said S o in a direction of an optical axis of the lens system.

Claim 27

A wide-angle lens according to claim 20, wherein said first unit of said second lens group comprises at least a negative lens provided closest to the object side and the following condition is satisfied: -8≦q.sub.N ≦-1 q.sub.N =(r.sub.B +r.sub.A)/(r.sub.B -r.sub.A), wherein, q N is a shape factor of said negative lens of said second lens group provided closest to the object side, r A is radius of curvature of a surface of said negative lens of said second lens group located on the object side, and r B is a radius curvature of a surface of said negative lens of said second lens group on the image side.

Claim 28

A wide-angle lens according to claim 21, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 0.1≦-f2N/f2≦5, wherein, f2N is a focal length of a negative lens of the second lens group located on the most object side.

Claim 29

A wide-angle lens according to claim 22, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 0.01≦d.sub.1 /(-f1)<0.3, wherein, d 1 is a distance along the optical axis from a lens surface of the first lens group located on the most objective side to a lens surface of the first lens group located on the most objective side.