The invention relates to a high-aperture wide-angle lens for digital image acquisition for photographic and industrial applications.
Besides digital reflex cameras, there is increasing interest in digital cameras without mirrors, but having approximately comparable properties with regard to the imaging quality and accessories, in particular with regard to the possibility of being able to use interchangeable lenses for specific tasks.
Dispensing with the mirror primarily affords a size advantage over reflex cameras for the systems. The model sizes of mirrorless cameras are already approaching those of large compact cameras.
Digital cameras having interchangeable lenses, but without mirrors, are often designated as “hybrid camera”. Interchangeable lenses having as compact a design as possible are also required, inter alia, in order to realize various specific uses of such cameras.
A wide-angle lens for digital image acquisition is described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,239,457 B2, for example. This wide-angle lens is suitable for acquisition with a half field angle in the range of between 40° and 50°. It has five or six lens elements, wherein the third and fourth lens elements are cemented to one another. One application-conforming property of the lens described is, for example the beam path downstream of the front lens element, said beam path being deflected by 90° by means of a prism. As a result, it is not suitable as an interchangeable lens for hybrid cameras. Furthermore, it has a very long total structural length.
Traditional wide-angle retrofocused lenses, such as in e.g. U.S. Pat. No. 5,631,780, consist of a multiplicity of spherical lens elements, here e.g. 10 lens elements, and have a structural length of approximately 70 to 100 mm. Aspherical surfaces are used only to a very small extent, here for example only two surfaces.
The document U.S. 2009/0009887 A1 describes, for example, a wide-angle lens comprising only five lens elements, wherein, as viewed from the object side, the third and fourth lens elements form a doublet. In this case, at least one of the five lens elements has an aspherical surface on the object side and at least one of the five lens elements has an aspherical surface on the image side. Moreover, in total at least three of the surfaces of the five lens elements are embodied in an aspherical fashion.
Another document (U.S. 2003/0174410 A1) discloses a wide-angle lens (having a fixed focal length) which likewise comprises five lens elements, constituting four lens element groups. Here, too, the third and fourth lens elements, as viewed from the object side, form a doublet. All lens element groups, with the exception of the doublet, are individual lens elements, wherein each of the individual lens elements has an aspherical surface.
The problem addressed by the invention is that of specifying a high-aperture wide-angle lens which is distinguished by a very compact design and by a very good imaging quality.
This problem is solved by the inventions comprising the features of the independent claim. Advantageous developments of the inventions are characterized in the dependent claims. The wording of all of the claims is hereby incorporated by reference in the content of this description.
The invention relates to a wide-angle lens for digital image acquisition, comprising the following elements in the stated order, as viewed from the object side:
, and
The wide-angle lens proposed is suitable for use in conjunction with image sensors up to an image circle diameter of 30 mm. In particular, they can be used in the photographic sector for APS-C (“Advanced Photo System Classic”) sensors and Micro Four Thirds sensors. The sensor size in APS-C is approximately 23.6×15.8 mm (which corresponds approximately to an aspect ratio of 3:2).
The proposed lens having a focal length of 16 mm and f-numbers of 2.8 and 2.2 is suitable for image circle diameters of up to 30 mm. The lens having a focal length of 12 mm and an f-number of 2.4 is provided for image circle diameters of up to 21.7 mm.
The object-side field angle of the lenses presented is greater than 80°; in particular, it is 85°. The significantly smaller image-side angle (principal ray angle that is incident on the chip plane) is a maximum of 20° and is necessary when using sensors with microlens elements in order to avoid loss of brightness.
The choice of glass types having higher refractive indexes (nd1.8) for the first four lens elements fosters the attainment of an extremely compact overall system whilst at the same time maintaining the very good correction state (which corresponds to a high imaging performance).
Due to its extremely compact design and its outstanding optical properties, the high-aperture wide-angle lens proposed is, in particular, also suitable as an interchangeable lens for the so-called “hybrid cameras”.
In one advantageous development of the lens, the second, positive lens element and/or the third, positive lens element and/or the fourth, negative lens element of the lens are/is a meniscus lens element.
Focusing to different distances can be effected not only by the above mentioned overall shifting of the lens but additionally by varying the first air clearance downstream of the diaphragm, i.e. the distance between the diaphragm and the third, positive lens element. The latter makes possible an optimum imaging performance over a large range of imaging scales.
The air clearance downstream of the first lens element should be at least 0.6 times the focal length of the lens, while the vertex focal length downstream of the last lens element surface in the image-side direction should be at least 1.25 times the focal length of the lens.
It is also advantageous if the fourth lens element is a negative meniscus lens element, wherein the concave surface of the lens element faces the object side.
It is also advantageous if the first lens element has two aspherical surfaces. This serves for correcting distortion, astigmatism and image field curvature.
It is likewise advantageous if the fifth lens element has two aspherical surfaces. This serves for correcting field-dependent image aberrations and reduces the image-side field angle in comparison with the object-side field angle.
The object-side surface of the second lens element should advantageously be embodied as an asphere in order to ensure the correction of the spherical aberration. An additional aspherical surface on the image-side surface is expedient in order to achieve maximum apertures higher than k=2.8 (e.g. k=2.2).
It is also advantageous if the object-side surface of the third lens element has an aspherical surface. This serves for correcting pupil-dependent image aberrations.
In a further advantageous embodiment, it can be advantageous for the ratio of the Abbe number of the third lens element to the Abbe number of the fourth lens element to be a value greater than or equal to 1.5.
Further details and features are evident from the following description of preferred exemplary embodiments in conjunction with the dependent claims. In this case, the respective features may be realized by themselves or as a plurality in combination with one another. The possibilities for solving the problem are not restricted to the exemplary embodiments. Thus, for example, range indications always encompass all intermediate values—not stated—and all conceivable sub-intervals.
The exemplary embodiments are illustrated schematically in the figures. Identical reference numerals in the individual figures in this case designate elements which are identical or functionally identical or correspond to one another with regard to their functions.
In the Drawing
The technical data of three exemplary embodiments of the wide-angle lens illustrated in
Table 1 shows a list of the radii, the thicknesses or air clearances, the refractive indexes and the Abbe numbers of a wide-angle lens in accordance with
Table 1A shows a list of the aspherical coefficients of a wide-angle lens in accordance with
Table 2 shows a list of the radii, the thicknesses or air clearances, the refractive indexes and the Abbe numbers of a wide-angle lens in accordance with
Table 2A shows a list of the aspherical coefficients of a wide-angle lens in accordance with
Table 3 shows a list of the radii, the thicknesses or air clearances, the refractive indexes and the Abbe numbers of a wide-angle lens in accordance with
Table 3A shows a list of the aspherical coefficients of a wide-angle lens in accordance with
The exemplary embodiment whose lens element arrangement is illustrated in
In the exemplary embodiment of the optical system 100 as illustrated schematically in
The wide-angle lens 102 shown in
The third lens element 126 and the fourth lens element 130 are cemented to one another and form a doublet.
On the image side, a glass path 142 is included downstream of the last lens element 136 of the wide-angle lens 102. Infrared cut filters and/or optical low-pass filters and a sensor cover glass are generally used. The total thickness is between 0.6 mm and 3 mm depending on the manufacturer.
As exemplary embodiments in accordance with the basic construction from
Exemplary embodiment 1:
Exemplary embodiment 2:
Exemplary embodiment 3:
The exact specifications concerning the individual surfaces of the optical elements of the three exemplary embodiments can be found in table 1 to table 3 together with the respectively associated reference numerals.
The lists of the radii, the thicknesses or air clearances, the refractive indexes and Abbe numbers of the three exemplary embodiments can be found in tables 1, 2 and 3.
The aspherical data of the aspherically embodied lens element surfaces of the three wide-angle lenses presented as exemplary embodiments are listed in tables 1A, 2A and 3A.
The surface of an aspherical lens element can generally be described by the following formula:
wherein
z is the sagittal (in mm) in the direction of the optical axis.
c indicates the so-called vertex curvature. It serves to describe the curvature of a convex or concave lens element surface and is calculated from the reciprocal of the radius.
r indicates the distance from the optical axis (in mm) and
r is a radial coordinate.
k indicates the so-called cone constant.
a1, a2, a3, a4, a5 and a6 represent the so-called aspherical coefficients, which are the coefficients of a polynomial expansion of the function for describing the surface of the asphere.
During focusing, it is advantageous if, besides shifting the lens as a whole, floating focusing is additionally performed. During floating focusing, the first air space downstream of the diaphragm is reduced. During floating focusing for the closest near setting (β′=−0.1, distance from the object=170 mm), the following values then arise:
A graphical illustration of the distortion 300 of a wide-angle lens 102 in accordance with
The graphical illustration of the spherical aberration 500 of a wide-angle lens 102 having a focal length of 16 mm and an f-number of k=2.8 is shown in
For focal lengths and/or f-numbers other than those already mentioned, all associated dimensional specifications, e.g. radii and air clearances, are scalable in principle.
This makes it possible to realize not only the three examples described, but rather an entire series of lenses of identical type, but with different focal lengths. The wide-angle lens can thus be used for different applications.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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102010035034.6 | Aug 2010 | DE | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/EP2011/063863 | 8/11/2011 | WO | 00 | 2/20/2013 |