Photographing optical lens assembly, imaging apparatus and electronic device

1. A photographing optical lens assembly comprising eight lens elements, the eight lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side:

a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element;

wherein each of the eight lens elements has an object-side surface facing towards the object side and an image-side surface facing towards the image side;

wherein the first lens element has negative refractive power, the eighth lens element has negative refractive power, the image-side surface of the eighth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof and comprises at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof, and at least one surface of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of at least one lens element of the eight lens elements is aspheric and comprises at least one inflection point;

wherein a half of a maximum field of view of the photographing optical lens assembly is HFOV, an axial distance between the object-side surface of the first lens element and an image surface is TL, a focal length of the photographing optical lens assembly is f, a focal length of the first lens element is f1, a vertical distance between the critical point in the off-axis region on the image-side surface of the eighth lens element and an optical axis is Yc82, a vertical distance between a maximum effective diameter position of the image-side surface of the eighth lens element and the optical axis is Y82, and the following conditions are satisfied:

55.0 degrees<HFOV;

1.0 mm< TL <12.0 mm;

−1.50< f/f 1≤−0.35; and

0.10< Yc 82/ Y 82<0.90.

2. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the half of the maximum field of view of the photographing optical lens assembly is HFOV, the focal length of the photographing optical lens assembly is f, an entrance pupil diameter of the photographing optical lens assembly is EPD, an incident angle of a chief ray at a maximum image height on the image surface of the photographing optical lens assembly is CRA, and the following conditions are satisfied:

55.0 degrees<HFOV<80.0 degrees;

1.0 <f /EPD<2.2; and

25.0 degrees<CRA<45.0 degrees.

3. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the photographing optical lens assembly is f, the focal length of the first lens element is f1, and the following condition is satisfied:

−1.10< f/f 1≤−0.51.

4. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the photographing optical lens assembly is f, a focal length of the second lens element is f2, and the following condition is satisfied:

−0.02≤ f/f 2≤0.53.

5. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the photographing optical lens assembly is f, a composite focal length of the first lens element and the second lens element is f12, and the following condition is satisfied:

−0.27≤ f/f 12≤0.36.

6. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the photographing optical lens assembly is f, a composite focal length of the first lens element, the second lens element and the third lens element is f123, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.30≤ f/f 123≤0.49.

7. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein a vertical distance between a maximum effective diameter position of the object-side surface of the first lens element and an optical axis is Y11, a vertical distance between a maximum effective diameter position of the image-side surface of the eighth lens element and the optical axis is Y82, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.45< Y 11/ Y 82<3.0.

8. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the object-side surface of the first lens element is planar or concave in a paraxial region thereof and comprises at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof, and the second lens element has positive refractive power.

9. The photographing optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens element has positive refractive power, the focal length of the photographing optical lens assembly is f, a focal length of the fourth lens element is f4, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.57≤ f/f 4<2.00.