A lens assembly includes: a lens group including a plurality of lenses;
and a lens holder accommodating the lens group and having an opening in
each of a front end face of the lens holder and a rear end face of the
lens holder. The opening of the front end face has a smaller diameter
than an outer diameter of a foremost lens accommodated in a foremost end
face side of the lens holder, the lens holder includes a spacer ring
disposed on a rear side of a rearmost lens accommodated in a rearmost end
face side of the lens holder, the spacer ring abutting on a peripheral
portion of the rearmost lens to keep a space between a rear face of the
rearmost lens and the rear end face of the lens holder, and the lens
holder holds a rear face of the spacer ring by thermal caulking.