Patent ID: 9696524
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G02B,H04N

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