Optical: systems and elements – Lens – With variable magnification
Patent
1998-07-16
1999-11-30
Epps, Georgia
Optical: systems and elements
Lens
With variable magnification
359685, 359686, 359687, 359688, G20B 1514
Patent
active
059952962
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a zoom lens having, in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power and adapted to move in the zooming operation, a third lens unit for correcting the variation in the image plane resulting from the movement of the second lens unit, and a fixed fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein an aspherical surface of a predetermined shape for satisfactorily correcting the spherical aberration and the distortion aberration resulting from the zooming operation is applied onto a predetermined lens in the lens unit.
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Patent Abstracts of Japan, vol. 18, No. 642 (P-1838) (JP 6-250086, Sep. 9, 1994), Dec. 6, 1994.
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Epps Georgia
Spector David N.
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