Patent attributes
The present invention is directed to a compact zoom lens that attains a reduction in outermost diameter of the lens barrel and weight and that greatly enhances a forward stroke of a first group of lenses. The compact zoom lens has a telescopic structure of a grouped-lens sliding frame, a first cam barrel, and a linearly movable barrel underlaying a fixed barrel one over another in this order, with a second cam barrel overlaying the same. Both the lens-group sliding frame and the first cam barrel are fixed in rotational direction and are engaged with each other so as to enable a relative rotation with each other along the optical axis, and the rotation of the first cam barrel is transmitted to the second cam barrel by means of the lens-group sliding frame.
