optical lens

Noun
  1. A lens that focuses the image in a camera (synset 102946696)
    is a type of: lens, lens system, lense - a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
    subtypes:
    • closeup lens - a photographic lens with a short focal length used to take pictures at short ranges
    • portrait lens - a compound camera lens with a relatively high aperture
    • telephoto lens, zoom lens - a camera lens that magnifies the image
    • fisheye lens, wide-angle lens - a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery
    is a part of:
    • camera, photographic camera - equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
    • camera, television camera, tv camera - television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam
    same as: camera lens

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