Patent ID: 7962020

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device; and an optical system configured to image light from an imaging subject on the imaging device, the optical system including at least a lens and an aperture diaphragm, wherein, when NP point is defined as a point where an extended linear component in an object space of a principal ray crosses an optical axis of the optical system, the principal ray being located in a Gauss region and being selected from among principal rays passing through a center of the aperture diaphragm of the optical system, D represents a diameter of a lens at the closest side to the imaging subject, LN represents a distance from a lens surface of the lens at the closest side to the imaging subject to the NP point, and a value of the distance LN is defined as positive when the NP point is located at a point behind the lens surface of the lens at the closest side to the imaging subject and as negative when the NP point is located in front of the lens surface of the lens at the closest side to the imaging subject, a formula, 0≦LN≦D, for when D>0, is satisfied, and the optical system is configured to rotate at the NP point.