Lexic.us

Definition of Camera lens

1. Noun. A lens that focuses the image in a camera.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camera Lens

Literary usage of Camera lens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Camera (1907)
"The term astigmatism is sometimes applied to a lens, but no camera lens, ... A camera lens having this defect produces, at the margins of the picture, ..."

2. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1907)
"Illustration of camera- lens. era of air lying along or a few feet above the surface of the earth on a hot day are peculiarly well-fitted to distort the ..."

3. Octavian's Campsite Memorial for the Actian War by Murray, William Michael (1989)
"This procedure produced focal points for the camera lens at 1.5 m. intervals regardless of the wall's slumping undulations, except at the ..."

4. The Astrophysical Journal by American Astronomical Society, University of Chicago (1902)
"2268 was secured with the regular camera lens referred to above, and Nos. ... In using the regular camera lens the plate-holder had to be tilted, ..."

5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
"A reasonably perfect modern camera lens is generally the work of many men, ... It is said that merely the design of the first Zeiss Tessar camera lens ..."

6. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"... with near objects such a finder is at once inaccurate, because the position of its lens differs, and must differ, from the position of the camera lens. ..."

7. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"18 Exhibit 467: Genocide Through a camera lens Nick Hughes To be a journalist in Rwanda in April of 1994 was to have a window on Auschwitz. ..."

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