Patent ID: 9274321
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G02B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image pickup apparatus, comprising a zoom lens, and an image pickup device located on an image side thereof, wherein: said zoom lens comprises: a most-object-side lens group that includes a reflecting element, is located on a most object side of the zoom lens, and remains fixed in position upon zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end of the zoom lens, at least two moving lens groups that are located on an image side with respect to said most-object-side lens group, and move upon zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, and a most-image-side lens group that is located on an image side with respect to said at least two moving lens groups, and is located on the most image side of the zoom lens, and wherein: said reflecting element reflects a light ray after it enters a refractive entrance surface of said most-object-side lens group, said zoom lens includes one reflecting element in all, said image pickup device is positioned on a side of a path taken by light reflected off said reflecting element, either one of said at least two moving lens groups is a positive-refracting-power moving lens group including three or more lenses, and a most-object-size lens in said positive-refracting-power moving lens group is a positive lens.