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Definition of Hyperfocal distance
1. Noun. The distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear.
Medical Definition of Hyperfocal distance
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperfocal Distance
Literary usage of Hyperfocal distance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"This distance is called the hyperfocal distance, and may be obtained by calculation
for any ... A knowledge of the hyperfocal distance has another use also. ..."
2. The Photographic Times (1908)
"It is called the hyperfocal distance. A somewhat more technical ... Example, the
hyperfocal distance of a lens of eight inches focus working at F6 is equal ..."
3. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1906)
"You may focus one lens on a calculated hyperfocal distance, and find that in
accord with theory very distant objects are fairly sharp; you may try the same ..."
4. The Techniques of the Hand Camera by Walter Bulkeley Coventry (1901)
"CHAPTER V. hyperfocal distance. THE hyperfocal distance is usually defined as
the distance from the lens beyond which all objects will appear tolerably ..."
5. The American Amateur Photographer and Camera & Dark-room (1907)
"The hyperfocal distance for a 5in. lens at f/8 is 26 feet = 312 inches. ...
In the case of cameras of this type, the hyperfocal distance of the lens at its ..."
6. A First Book of the Lens: An Elementary Treatise on the Action and Use of by C Welborne Piper (1901)
"With a focussing-camera the hyperfocal distance should always be represented in
the scale, and in many cases this distance takes the place of the true ..."
7. Behind the Motion-picture Screen by Austin Celestin Lescarboura (1919)
"The "hyperfocal distance" of a lens is the phrase applied to its depth of focus at
... So that little term, hyperfocal distance, whatever that may be, ..."
8. Photography for Students of Physics and Chemistry by Louis Derr (1913)
"hyperfocal distance. — It is not difficult to calculate, ... hyperfocal distance.
sharply focused object must be in order that all beyond it may be defined ..."
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