Patent ID: 8837056

Claim:
A zoom lens, comprising: a first lens group configured to have positive refractive power; a second lens group configured to have negative refractive power; a third lens group configured to have positive refractive power; a fourth lens group configured to have positive refractive power; and a fifth lens group configured to have negative refractive power, wherein the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, the fourth lens group, and the fifth lens group are disposed in that order from an object side, the respective lens groups move in magnification variation from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the fourth lens group is moved along an optical axis to correct variation of an imaging position in association with magnification variation and perform correction of the imaging position in association with object distance change, and condition expression (1) is satisfied: 0.60 <f 1/( fw·ft ) 1/2 <1.10 (1), where fl: focal length of the first lens group fw: focal length of the zoom lens at the wide angle end ft: focal length of the zoom lens at the telephoto end, wherein, the first lens group is configured by a first lens group cemented lens having a first lens group negative meniscus lens with a convex surface oriented toward the object side and a first lens group biconvex lens cemented together and having a first lens group positive meniscus lens having a convex surface oriented toward the object side in that order from the object side, the second lens group is configured by a second lens group cemented lens having a second lens group biconcave lens and a second lens group positive meniscus lens with a convex surface oriented toward the object side cemented together and a second lens group negative lens having a biconcave shape in that order from the object side, the third lens group is configured by a third lens group biconvex lens and a third lens group cemented lens having a third lens group biconvex lens and a third lens group biconcave lens cemented to third lens group biconvex lens and arranged in that order from the object side, the fourth lens group is configured by a single fourth lens group biconvex lens having both surfaces being aspherical in shape and the fifth lens group is configured by a fifth lens group front group and a fifth lens group back group in that order from the object side with the fifth lens group front group having a biconcave lens with both surfaces being aspherical in shape and the fifth lens group back group is a fifth lens group cemented lens composed of a fifth lens group biconvex lens and a fifth lens group biconcave lens cemented together, wherein, as the first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens groups respectively move from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, each one of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens groups respectively moves away from a reference image surface, and wherein the first lens group, the third lens group and the fifth lens group monotonically move toward the object side.