摘要 |
A lens barrel including a telescopic cylinder accommodated within a fixed cylinder, and lenses retained in the telescopic cylinder. The lens barrel includes lens retaining frames to retain at least one of the lenses and a lens driving device to drive the lens retaining frames so as to drive the lenses along a longitudinal axis of the telescopic cylinder between a collapsed position in which one portion of the lenses is stored in the fixed cylinder and an extended position in which one portion of the lenses is extended out of the fixed cylinder toward a photographing subject. The lens barrel further includes a retractable lens that is retracted into the fixed cylinder through an opening in a wall of the fixed cylinder when the telescopic cylinder is in the extended position, and a retractable lens retaining frame to retain the retractable lens. The lens barrel includes an impact preventing member so that if the lenses are in the extended position and an external impact is received by the lens barrel, the impact preventing member abuts against one of the lens retaining frames to prevent the lens retaining frames from moving to the collapsed state and contacting the retractable lens retaining frame.
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