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Definition of Portrait lens
1. Noun. A compound camera lens with a relatively high aperture.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portrait Lens
Literary usage of Portrait lens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"These forms were soon superseded by the compound portrait lens, calculated by J.
Petzval and brought out by FIG. 18.—First English portrait lens. FIG. 19. ..."
2. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"CHAPTER VII THE LENS IN USE The portrait lens—Single lenses—Using half a ...
A portrait lens is one which works at a very large aperture, F/4 usually. ..."
3. The Photographic Times (1908)
"A portrait lens is one in which the maker's first consideration has been rapidity.
With the old-fashioned wet collodion process, this was very important, ..."
4. The British Journal of Photographyby Liverpool Photographic Society by Liverpool Photographic Society (1874)
"The instant a portrait lens is employed to produce an image larger than the original
... A portrait lens, as at present constructed, must be used either for ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"With this small lens the earth-lit portion of the new moon was readily photographed
in a single second, while with a 6-inch portrait lens of ratio £ from 20 ..."
6. The American Amateur Photographer (1906)
"An Old portrait lens. W. HARTLEY.—From your description it seems to be an old
portrait lens, and the 12-inch focus indicates that it was intended to cover a ..."
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