PURPOSE: To obtain a wide angle photographic lens with small distance between a first surface and a final surface. high performance, and large aperture of F/2.8 class by constituting both a front group of at least two positive lenses and one negative lens, and a rear group of one meniscus lens whose convex surface is faced with an image side.

CONSTITUTION: This wide angle photographic lens is constituted of the front group of three groups/four lenses consisting of a positive joint lens joining a positive meniscus lens (r1, r2) whose convex surface is faced with an object side, a biconcave lens (r3, r4), a biconvex positive lens (r5, r6). and the negative lens(r 7) and in which the convex surface of a joining surface is faced with the image side sequentially observing from the object side, and the rear group consisting of a diaphragm r 8 and one positive meniscus lens (r9, r10) whose convex surface is faced with the image side. By employing such constitution, it is possible to correct the aberration of the whole lens system by negating distortion aberration, come aberration, and astigmatism with each other in the front and rear groups.