Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFL.sub.W and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFL.sub.T,min in one zoom state to EFL.sub.T,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFL.sub.Tmin>1.5×EFL.sub.W and wherein EFL.sub.Tmax>1.5×EFL.sub.Tmin.

Folded Tele cameras comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding a first optical path OP1 to a second optical path OP2, a lens including N=8 lens elements, the lens being divided into three lens groups numbered, in order from an object side of the lens, G1, G2 and G3, and an image sensor, wherein G1 and G3 are included in a single G13 carrier, wherein G2 is included in a G2 carrier, wherein both the G13 carrier and the G2 carrier include rails for defining the position of G2 relative to G13, wherein the Tele camera is configured to change a zoom factor continuously between a minimum zoom factor ZF.sub.MIN and a maximum zoom factor ZF.sub.MAX by moving the G2 carrier relative to the G13 carrier and by moving the G13 carrier relative to the image sensor, and wherein an effective focal length (EFL) is 7.5 mm<EFL<50 mm. The G2 carrier may be positioned by a lens transporter within the G13 carrier at a particular zoom factor to form a lens pair to enable optical investigation and/or transporting of the lens pair.

An optical imaging lens includes first to third lens element groups in sequence along an optical axis from an object side to an image side. The first lens element group includes at least two lens elements. The second lens element group includes at least two lens elements. The third lens element group includes at least two lens elements. When the optical imaging lens is zoomed, at least one lens element group is moved toward a direction of the object side or the image side along the optical axis.

The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group that has a positive refractive power, a stop, a second lens group that has a positive refractive power, and a third lens group that has a negative refractive power. During focusing, the first lens group and the third lens group remain stationary with respect to the image plane, and the second lens group moves along the optical axis. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.

The zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group that has a positive refractive power, a second lens group that has a positive refractive power, and a subsequent group. During zooming, a spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group changes, and a spacing between the second lens group and the subsequent group changes. The subsequent groups include a focusing group that moves during focusing.

Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFL.sub.W and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFL.sub.T,min in one zoom state to EFL.sub.T,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFL.sub.Tmin>1.5×EFL.sub.W and wherein EFL.sub.Tmax>1.5×EFL.sub.Tmin.

Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFLw and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFL.sub.T,.sub.min in one zoom state to EFL.sub.T,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFL.sub.Tmin > 1.5 x EFLw and wherein EFL.sub.Tmax > 1.5 x EFL.sub.Tmin.

The invention relates to a correction objective (10), comprising a first lens group (12) of positive optical power, a second lens group (14) of positive optical power, a third lens group (16) of negative optical power, and a fourth lens group (18) of positive optical power, which are arranged in this order from the object side, the second lens group (14) being movable along the optical axis (O) in such a way that the sum of the distance (V1) between the second lens group (14) and the first lens group (12) and the distance (V2) between the second lens group (14) and the third lens group (16) is constant. The image scale of the second lens group (14) lies in a range of −0.9 to −1.1.

The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first positive lens group, a stop, a second positive lens group, and a third negative lens group. During focusing, the first lens group and the second lens group move integrally. The first lens group consists of three or less lenses. The first lens group includes a cemented lens in which a negative lens and a positive lens are cemented in order from the object side. The third lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a negative aspheric lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens. The lens closest to the image side in the second lens group is a biconvex lens, and the imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional expression regarding the radius of curvature of the surface of the biconvex lens.

Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFL.sub.W and a folded or non-folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to a Macro state or to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFL.sub.T,min in one zoom state to EFL.sub.T,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFL.sub.Tmin>1.5×EFL.sub.W and wherein EFL.sub.Tmax>1.5×EFL.sub.Tmin. In the Macro state, the lens with EFL.sub.T,min allows for focusing on objects with short object-camera distances such as 5 cm. Actuators for enabling the movements are also disclosed.