To provide a taking lens where chromatic aberration of magnification and other aberration are excellently compensated, which can be used to an extent that a half viewing angle is about 32.5° and which is suitable to use an imaging element though it is constituted of three lenses.

This taking lens is constituted of a 1st negative meniscus lens whose convex surface faces to an object side, a 2nd positive lens and a 3rd negative meniscus lens whose concave surface faces to an image side from the object side.