Retro-focus type wide angle lens
First Claim
1. A retro-focus type wide angle lens for forming an image of an object at an image plane comprising:
- a divergent lens group including;
two sets of sub-lens groups each consisting of at least one first meniscus lens having a negative refractive power and a surface convex on the object side; and
a lens group arranged between said two sets of sub-lens groups and comprising meniscus lens convex on the object side, the surface of the lens group closest to the object being non-spherical for distortion compensation; and
a convergent lens group on the image side against said divergent lens group including;
a front lens group including a diaphragm, a second negative meniscus lens concave on the object side, and a biconvex lens in sequence from the diaphragm to the object so as to form a divergent air lens between said second negative meniscus lens and said biconvex lens; and
a rear lens group having a plural number of lens surfaces and provided on the image side with reference to the diaphragm, at least one of said lens surfaces being concave on the image side.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a retro-focus type wide angle lens which is compact despite its remarkably large field of view and well compensated for various aberrations.
This lens system consists of the first divergent lens group and the second convergent lens group in sequence from the side of the object, whereby the first divergent group consists of a plural number of meniscus lenses convex to the object in such a manner that the distortion is compensated for and a compact lens system is realized by forming the object side surface of the substantially zero first order power lens in the meniscus lenses non spherical. The meniscus lens with non-spherical surface is formed from plastic material, resulting in an inexpensive and light retro-focus type wide angle lens.
Further, the second convergent lens group is divided into two lens groups with a diaphragm as boundary, whereby in the object side lens group a meniscus lens concave to the object and a biconvex lens are arranged in sequence from the diaphragm to the object side so as to form an air lens having a divergent effect between both lenses, while in the image plane side lens group a lens concave to the image is arranged so as to eliminate the astigmatism and the spherical aberration.
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19 Claims
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1. A retro-focus type wide angle lens for forming an image of an object at an image plane comprising:
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a divergent lens group including; two sets of sub-lens groups each consisting of at least one first meniscus lens having a negative refractive power and a surface convex on the object side; and a lens group arranged between said two sets of sub-lens groups and comprising meniscus lens convex on the object side, the surface of the lens group closest to the object being non-spherical for distortion compensation; and a convergent lens group on the image side against said divergent lens group including; a front lens group including a diaphragm, a second negative meniscus lens concave on the object side, and a biconvex lens in sequence from the diaphragm to the object so as to form a divergent air lens between said second negative meniscus lens and said biconvex lens; and a rear lens group having a plural number of lens surfaces and provided on the image side with reference to the diaphragm, at least one of said lens surfaces being concave on the image side. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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9. A retro-focus type wide angle lens comprising:
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a diaphragm; and a front lens group on the object side of the diaphragm comprising; a negative meniscus lens convex on the object side; a meniscus lens of substantially zero first order power, having a convex non-spherical surface on the object side; a negative meniscus lens group having at least one meniscus lens convex on the subject side; a convergent lens group next to said negative meniscus lens group, including a lens pair which consists of a biconvex lens on the object side, and a negative meniscus lens concave on the object side and located on the image side in sequence form the object side immediately up to the diaphragm; and a rear lens group on the image side of the diaphragm comprising; a first meniscus lens concave on the image side; a second positive meniscus lens convex on the image side and having a divergent cemented surface concave on the image side; and a biconvex lens, in sequence from the object side. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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