A zoom optical system (ZL) comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having a positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having a negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having a positive refractive power; and a subsequent lens group (GR), wherein upon zooming, a distance between the first lens group (G1) and the second lens group (G2) changes, a distance between the second lens group (G2) and the third lens group (G3) changes, and a distance between the third lens group (G3) and the subsequent lens group (GR) changes, the subsequent lens group (GR) comprises a focusing lens group that moves upon focusing, and the second lens group (G2) comprises a partial group that satisfies following conditional expressions, 1.40<fvr/f2<2.30, 1.80<f1/fw<3.50 where fvr: a focal length of the partial group, f2: a focal length of the second lens group (G2), f1: a focal length of the first lens group (G1), and fw: a focal length of the zoom optical system (ZL) in a wide-angle end state.

A zoom optical system (ZL) comprises: a first lens group (G1) disposed closest to an object and having a positive refractive power; an aperture stop (S) disposed closer to an image than the first lens group (G1); a positive lens component disposed so as to oppose the image side of the aperture stop (S); and a lens group (G3) having the positive lens component, wherein a distance between the first lens group (G1) and the lens group (G3) having the positive lens component changes during zooming, at least one lens surface of the positive lens component has an aspherical surface, and the following conditional expression,
0.40<fp/fGp<3.60
is satisfied,
where fp: a focal length of the positive lens component, and fGp: a focal length of the lens group (G3) having the positive lens component.

A zoom optical system ZL comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having a positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having a negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having a positive refractive power; and a subsequent lens group (GR), wherein upon zooming, distances between the lens groups change, the subsequent lens group (GR) comprises a focusing lens group that moves upon focusing, and conditional expressions 0.18<(−fF)/f1<0.30, and 0.84<(−f2)/f3<1.20, are satisfied, where fF: a focal length of the focusing lens group, f1: a focal length of the first lens group (G1), f2: a focal length of the second lens group (G2), and f3: a focal length of the third lens group (G3).

A zoom lens system includes: a first group of lenses having positive power; a second group of lenses having negative power; a third group of lenses having positive power; a fourth group of lenses having negative power; and a fifth group of lenses having power, which are arranged in this order from an object toward an image. While this system is zooming, intervals between these groups change and the fifth group of lenses moves toward the object. This system satisfies 0.12<T35t/TLt<0.25, where T35t is a distance, measured at telephoto end, from one surface, closest to the image, of the third group of lenses to another surface, closest to the object, of the fifth group of lenses, and TLt is a distance, measured at the telephoto end, from one surface, closest to the object, of the first group of lenses to an image plane.

A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, and a rear group. The second lens group consists of a second sub-first lens group having positive or negative power, and a second sub-second lens group having negative power. The second sub-second lens group consists of, sequentially from the object side toward the image: a positive second-first lens component; a negative second-second lens component; and a negative second-third lens component. During zooming from a short focal length end to a long focal length end, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group increases, and a distance between the second lens group and the rear group decreases. A part of the second lens group is movable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis during correction of image blurring.

The present invention provides a zoom lens which is the zoom lens that includes a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, and a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power in order from an object side, and changes focal length by changing an air interval between the respective lens groups, the zoom lens including a focus group F constituted from one lens in or after the third lens group G3, moving only the focus group F along an optical axis direction when focusing from an infinity object to a proximity object, and satisfying specific conditional expressions, and an imaging apparatus including the zoom lens.

A zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a positive fourth lens group, and a fifth lens group in order from an object side. In a case of zooming, an interval with an adjacent lens group is changed. The third lens group includes two positive lenses consecutively arranged in order from a side closest to the object side to an image side. The fifth lens group consists of a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface toward the object side and a positive lens having a convex surface toward the object side in order from the object side to the image side.

A first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group (G4) having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens group (G5) having positive refractive power are arranged in order from an object, and zooming is performed by changing distances between each lens group, and the first lens group (G1) is composed of three or more lenses, the fourth lens group (G4) is composed of two or less lenses, and the fifth lens group (G5) is composed of two or less lenses and moves to an image surface side upon zooming from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied.

8.40<f1/(f2)(1) where, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens group (G1), and f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens group (G2).

A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image 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 rear unit having a plurality of lens units, a distance between adjacent lens units changing during zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image 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, and a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power. In the zoom lens, an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, and the first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. Further, a total length DT of the zoom lens at a telephoto end, a focal length fT of the zoom lens at the telephoto end, a distance BW of a back focus at a wide-angle end, a total length DW of the zoom lens at the wide-angle end, and a focal length f3 of the third lens unit are each appropriately set.