camera lens — noun a lens that focuses the image in a camera (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑optical lens • Hypernyms: ↑lens, ↑lense, ↑lens system • Hyponyms: ↑closeup lens, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
fisheye lens — [fish′ī΄] n. a camera lens designed to record up to a 180 degree field of vision … English World dictionary
fisheye lens — noun 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 • Syn: ↑wide angle lens • Hypernyms: ↑camera lens,… … Useful english dictionary
Fisheye lens — In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology [Hill, R. 1924. A lens for whole sky photographs. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological… … Wikipedia
camera — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. See optical instruments. II (Roget s IV) n. Kinds of cameras include: camera obscura, astrograph, camera lucida, camcorder, cinecamera, X ray machine, image orthicon, photochronograph, photogrammeter … English dictionary for students
fisheye lens — fish′eye lens [[t]ˈfɪʃˌaɪ[/t]] n. pht a hemispherical plano convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in front of the camera … From formal English to slang
fisheye lens — Photog. a hemispherical plano convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery. [1960 65] * * * … Universalium
fisheye — 1) an eye like that of a fish 2) a wide angle lens on a camera covering about 180° 3) a weld defect having a hole or piece of matter surrounded by a circular area of brightness 4) a diamond or other gem cut too thin for proper brilliance 5) a… … Dictionary of ichthyology
Canon FD lens mount — The Canon FD lens mount is a physical standard for connecting a photographic lens to a single lens reflex camera body. The standard was developed by Canon of Japan and was introduced in March 1971 with the Canon F 1 camera. It was the primary… … Wikipedia
History of the single-lens reflex camera — The history of the single lens reflex camera predates the invention of photography in 1826/27 by one and a half centuries with the use of a reflex mirror in a camera obscura first described in 1676. Such SLR devices were popular as drawing aids… … Wikipedia
Digital camera — Digicam redirects here. For the military camouflauge method using micropatterns, see Military camouflage#Digital camouflauge. A digital camera (or digicam) is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images… … Wikipedia