The zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, a negative fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group in order from an object side. All distances between adjacent lens groups change during zooming. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. Only the fourth lens group moves to an image side during focusing from a long range to a short range. Conditional Expression related to a distance from a lens surface of the first lens group closest to the object side to an image plane and a distance from a lens surface of the second lens group closest to the object side to the image plane is satisfied.

An optical apparatus capable of correcting field curvature easily, a method for manufacturing the optical apparatus, and a headlight including the optical apparatus. A lens, a plurality of solid-state light sources, and a substrate on which the solid-state light sources are mounted. The substrate includes a base material, which is rigid, and a mount surface, which is formed on the base material in a curved surface shape that substantially matches a focal plane shape of the lens, and on which a circuit pattern is formed. The solid-state light sources are mounted on the mount surface, and the substrate is positioned with respect to the lens such that a position of a focal plane of the lens substantially coincides with emission surfaces of the solid-state light sources, and thus field curvature can be easily corrected

A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from object side to image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements have refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point.

Disclosed is an eyepiece optical system with a large field-of-view angle, and a head-mounted display apparatus. The eyepiece optical system comprises a first lens group (G1) and a second lens group (G2) which are arranged coaxially and successively along an optical axis from a human eye to an image source and meet a certain focal length relationship. A distance (D12) between the first lens (L1) and the second lens (L2), a focal length relationship of lenses within the second lens group (G2) and the material properties of various lenses meet a certain relationship. The eyepiece optical system has the advantages of large aperture, large field-of-view, high resolution, low distortion, and small size, etc., and is suitable for a head-mounted display and similar apparatuses.

A zoom image pickup apparatus includes a mount portion, a zoom lens which forms an image of light incident from the mount portion, and an image pickup element which is disposed at an image forming position, wherein the zoom lens includes in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, and the fourth lens unit is a focusing lens unit, and at the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, only the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit move, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied:

φ.sub.L1<φ.sub.3GL1  (1).

A lens module includes a lens assembly, a voice coil motor, a bracket, a circuit board, and a solder block. The voice coil motor includes a pin. The lens assembly is received in the voice coil motor. The bracket is disposed on the voice coil motor. The pin is extending into the recessed area. The bracket is sandwiched between the voice coil motor and the circuit board. The circuit board includes conductive supporting blocks facing the voice coil motor. The conductive supporting blocks are disposed in the recessed area. And one pin and one conductive supporting block are electrically connected by the solder block. The present disclosure also provides an electronic device including the lens module.

The anamorphic objective zoom lens includes, along an optical axis and in order from an object space to an image space: at least a negative (−) power spherical first lens group; an anamorphic second lens group, spherical third lens group preferably having positive (+) power, a variable power spherical fourth lens group and a positive (+) power spherical fifth lens group. The aperture stop is located before, after or preferably within the spherical fifth lens group. All spherical lens groups contain spherical and piano refractive optical surfaces. The anamorphic second lens group contains cylindrical and plano optical surfaces with at least one cylindrical surface oriented at substantially 90 degrees about at least one other cylindrical surface. The spherical first lens group may provide focusing. The variable power spherical fourth lens group provides zooming. The spherical third and fifth lens groups may provide compensation for thermal defocus.

An optical imaging system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element. Each of the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element includes at least one aspheric surface. The fourth lens element and the fifth lens element are made of plastic. The fifth lens element includes a concave image-side surface and at least one inflection point. An axial distance is formed between each of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element, and the optical imaging system further comprises a stop.

A zoom lens has a four-group zoom configuration, in order from the object side to the image side, consisting of negative, positive, positive, and positive refractive power. The zoom lens carries out zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end mainly by changing the distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group. Also, the distance between the second lens group and the third lens group may be decreased in the zooming. Focusing is carried out mainly by moving the second lens group along the optical axis. Such a zoom lens is thin and small in size, and has a great imaging performance.

A lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region. The second lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side and an image-side surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an aspheric concave object-side surface and an aspheric convex image-side surface in a paraxial region. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region with a convex shape in an off-axis region.