| Noun | 1. | camera lens - a lens that focuses the image in a cameracamera, 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 |