Patent ID: 7911706

Claim:
A zoom lens having a plurality of lens groups which are disposed in order from an object, wherein a first lens group that is disposed closest to the object among the plurality of lens groups has positive refractive power and comprises a light path bending element which bends the path of light and a plurality of lens components which are air-spaced on the optical axis and disposed closer to the object than the light path bending element; and, the following conditional expression L 1/ Lp< 1.0 is satisfied, where the distance on the optical axis from the surface closest to the object in the first lens group to the surface closest to the object in the light path bending element is L 1 and the distance on the optical axis of the light path bending element is Lp and wherein the field of view in the wide-angle end state is equal to or more than 75 degrees.