A four-piece optical image capturing system is disclosed. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lenses are aspheric. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.

An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has negative refracting power, the periphery region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is concave and the optical-axis region of the object-side surface of the third lens element is concave. The Abbe number of the first lens element is υ1, the Abbe number of the second lens element is υ2, the Abbe number of the third lens element is υ3 and the Abbe number of the fourth lens element is υ4 to satisfy υ1+υ2+υ3+υ4≤150.000.

A lens (10) and a camera module (100) and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the lens (10) comprises an edge-cut lens sheet (114), wherein the edge-cut lens sheet (14) includes at least one chord edge (1141) and at least one circular edge (1142), wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) are adjacently connected to each other, and wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) have different curvatures, so that the lens sheet (114) becomes narrow and the width of the lens (10) become narrow, to form an ultra-narrow camera module (100).

A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFL.sub.W and EFL.sub.T and respective total track lengths TTL.sub.W and TTL.sub.T and wherein TTL.sub.W/EFL.sub.W>1.1 and TTL.sub.T/EFL.sub.T<1.0. Optionally, the dual-aperture zoom camera may further comprise an optical OIS controller configured to provide a compensation lens movement according to a user-defined zoom factor (ZF) and a camera tilt (CT) through LMV=CT*EFL.sub.ZF, where EFL.sub.ZF is a zoom-factor dependent effective focal length.

A lens module includes a lens barrel and a first optical lens. The lens barrel includes a first lens chamber and a second lens chamber arranged along an optical axis, wherein an inner edge surface of the lens barrel has an extension portion, the extension portion is located between the first lens chamber and the second lens chamber and defines a light-passing hole, and the first lens chamber communicates with the second lens chamber via the light-passing hole. The first optical lens is disposed in the first lens chamber and has a first optical zone surrounding the optical axis and a first non-optical zone surrounding an outside of the first optical zone, wherein the first non-optical zone includes a first protrusion, and the first protrusion is disposed in the light-passing hole.

An annular optical element includes an outer annular surface, an inner annular surface, a first side surface, a second side surface and a plurality of strip-shaped wedge structures. The outer annular surface surrounds a central axis of the annular optical element and includes at least two shrunk portions. The first side surface connects the outer annular surface and the inner annular surface. The second side surface connects the outer annular surface and the inner annular surface, wherein the second side surface is disposed correspondingly to the first side surface. The strip-shaped wedge structures are disposed on the inner annular surface, wherein each of the strip-shaped wedge structures is disposed along a direction from the first side surface towards the second side surface and includes an acute end and a tapered portion connecting the inner annular surface and the acute end.

The invention discloses a four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a four-piece optical module for capturing image. From an object side to an image side, the optical lenses along the optical axis comprises a first lens with refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of an image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the image quality for use in compact cameras.

A four-piece infrared wavelength lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with a positive refractive power, a stop, a second lens element with a refractive power, a third lens element with a positive refractive power, a fourth lens element with a negative refractive power, wherein a focal length of the first lens element and the second lens element combined is f12, a focal length of the third lens element and the fourth lens element combined is f34, and they satisfy the relation: 0.2<f12/f34<1.4. Such a system has a wide field of view, large stop, short length and less distortion.

An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens, arranged sequentially from an object side along an optical axis. The first lens through the fourth lens are spaced apart from each other along the optical axis in a paraxial region. A total focal length f of a lens unit including the first lens through the fourth lens and half (IMG HT) of a diagonal length of an imaging surface of an image sensor satisfy f/IMG HT>4.9. An effective aperture radius of an object-side surface of the first lens and an effective aperture radius of an object-side surface of the second lens are both greater than effective aperture radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of each of the lenses other than the first lens and the second lens.

An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has negative refracting power, the periphery region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is concave and the optical-axis region of the object-side surface of the third lens element is concave. The Abbe number of the first lens element is υ1, the Abbe number of the second lens element is υ2, the Abbe number of the third lens element is υ3 and the Abbe number of the fourth lens element is υ4 to satisfy υ1+υ2+υ3+υ4≤150.000.