Patent ID: 6975462

Claim:
A zoom lens, comprising: a fixed lens group that remains fixed during zooming, a negative lens group that has negative refracting power, moves during zooming and is located on an image side of said zoom lens with respect to said fixed lens group, a positive lens group that has positive refracting power, moves during zooming and is located on an image side of said zoom lens with respect to said negative lens group, a lens group that has refracting power and is located on an image side of said zoom lens with respect to said positive lens group, and an optical low-pass filter, wherein: said fixed lens group comprises a positive lens element and a reflecting optical element for bending an optical path, said positive lens element is located on an image side of the reflecting optical element, a total number of positive lens elements located on the image side of the reflecting optical element in said fixed lens group is one, said negative lens group comprises a cemented lens component including a positive lens element and a negative lens element, and said positive lens group comprises a cemented lens component including a positive lens element and a negative lens element.