Abstract: A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units including, in order from an object side to an image side, at least a positive first lens unit, a negative second lens unit, and a positive third lens unit, wherein any one of the plurality of lens units includes a lens element having a reflecting surface that bends a light beam incident from an object, in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, the first lens unit and the third lens unit do not move along an optical axis, and the conditions: 4.25<?(fW×fT)/tG2<10.00 and fT/fW>2.5 (tG2: a thickness of the second lens unit, fT and fW: focal lengths of the entire system at a telephoto limit and a wide-angle limit) are satisfied; an imaging device; and a camera.

Abstract: An illuminating optical system for a projector including a light source and a plurality of display panels. The optical system includes a first integrator, which includes a plurality of lens cells that divide a luminous flux emitted by the light source into a plurality of partial luminous fluxes and that condense the respective partial luminous fluxes, a second integrator, which includes a plurality of lens cells on which the respective partial luminous fluxes are incident, a polarization converting element, which uniformizes polarizing directions of the luminous fluxes having passed through the respective lens cells of the second integrator, and a color separating unit, which separates each of the luminous fluxes from the polarization converting element into a plurality of color lights of different wavelengths. A field lens and a condenser lens are arranged between the polarization converting element and the color separating unit.

Abstract: An illuminating optical system for a projector including a light source and a plurality of display panels, includes a first integrator that includes a plurality of lens cells that divide a luminous flux emitted by the light source into a plurality of partial luminous fluxes and that condense the respective partial luminous fluxes, a second integrator that includes a plurality of lens cells on which the respective partial luminous fluxes are incident, a polarization converting element that uniformizes polarizing directions of the luminous fluxes having passed through the respective lens cells of the second integrator, and a color separating unit that separates each of the luminous fluxes from the polarization converting element into a plurality of color lights of different wavelengths. A field lens and a condenser lens are arranged between the polarization converting element and the color separating unit.

Abstract: An illuminating optical system that includes a first integrator that includes a plurality of lens, a second integrator that includes a plurality of lens cells on which the respective partial luminous fluxes are incident, a polarization converting element that uniformizes polarizing directions of the luminous fluxes that have passed through the respective lens cells of the second integrator, and color separating unit that separates each of the luminous flux from the polarization converting element into a plurality of color lights of different wavelengths. A field lens and a condenser lens are arranged between the polarization converting element and the separating unit to superimpose the luminous fluxes that have passed through the respective lens cells of the first integrator, on the plurality of display panels. The condenser lens is located closer to the color separating unit.

Abstract: A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and subsequent lens units including a fourth lens unit having optical power, wherein any one of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the subsequent lens units includes a lens element having a reflecting surface that bends a light beam incident from an object, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, the first lens unit and the third lens unit do not move along an optical axis, and wherein the condition is satisfied: 1.42<nd4ave<1.58 (nd4ave is an average of refractive indices to the d-line of the lens elements constituting the fourth lens unit), an imaging device and a camera are provided.

Abstract: An exemplary aspect of the present invention provides an illuminating optical system for a projector including a light source and a plurality of display panels, the illuminating optical system that includes a first integrator that includes a plurality of lens cells that divide a luminous flux emitted by the light source into a plurality of partial luminous fluxes and that condense the respective partial luminous fluxes, a second integrator that includes a plurality of lens cells on which the respective partial luminous fluxes are incident, a polarization converting element that uniformizes polarizing directions of the luminous fluxes that have passed through the respective lens cells of the second integrator, and color separating unit that separates each of the luminous flux from the polarization converting element into a plurality of color lights of different wavelengths, and wherein a field lens and a condenser lens are arranged between the polarization converting element and the separating unit to superimp