The present invention relates to a zoom lens comprising a compensation lens group (G1) having a negative refractive power, a stop (STO), and a zoom lens group (G2) having a positive refractive power arranged in order along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, the compensation lens group (G1) comprising a first lens (L1), a second lens (L2), and a third lens (L3) along the optical axis from the object side to the image side, the zoom lens group (G2) comprises fourth optical elements (B4, L4), a fifth lens (L5), a sixth lens (L6), a seventh lens (L7) and an eighth lens (L8), and the eighth lens (L8) is a convex-concave lens. According to the zoom lens, infrared confocal, athermalization and ultralow cost can be realized.