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camera lens - a lens that focuses the image in a camera

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)

closeup lens - a photographic lens with a short focal length used to take pictures at short ranges

lens, lens system, lense - a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

portrait lens - a compound camera lens with a relatively high aperture

telephoto lens, zoom lens - a camera lens that magnifies the image

television camera, tv camera, camera - television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

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

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His photographs allow concealed characteristics and particularities of the urban experience to become apparent through the photographic lens. His photographic portfolio focuses on well-known landmark buildings, as well as thematic compositions of anonymous architecture.

The unseen can be the most beautiful

Grinding the objective lenses also went slowly; only the photographic lens was finished when the telescope was installed for the exhibition's opening in April 1900.

The lesson of the great Paris Telescope

As in all her subsequent work, Kasten collapsed radically different registers of space and movement into each "Construct" photograph, staging arrays of physical objects in "real" space, but then exploring them via the virtual flattening of the photographic lens.

Barbara Kasten

Ultimately, they offer us the clearest insight into the reality of the artist himself, for it is through the photographic lens that Rosso fully takes shape as a sculptor of light, a photographer of space, and an exceptional artist of his time.

New materials: it is for his photographic experiments that Medardo Rosso should be celebrated

Fine Art Portrait Photography: Lighting, Posing & Postproduction from Concept to Completion narrows the photographic lens to the heart of what makes a picture artistic--and how to hone this concept in portraiture objectives.

Fine Art Portrait Photography

Through Migliori's photographic lens, viewers are greeted with an insightful portrayal of Italy.

Italian neorealism through photography