Optical lens or assembly of lenses used with a camera to create images
This section is about the optical system. For the organism, see Kamera lens.
Different kinds of camera lenses, including wide angle, telephoto and speciality
A camera lens (also known as photographic lens or photographic objective) is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects either on photographic film or on other media capable of storing an image chemically or electronically.
There is no major difference in principle between a lens used for a still camera, a video camera, a telescope, a microscope, or other apparatus, but the details of design and construction are different. A lens might be permanently fixed to a camera, or it might be interchangeable with lenses of different focal lengths, apertures, and other properties.
While in principle a simple convex lens will suffice, in practice a compound lens made up of a number of optical lens elements is required to correct (as much as possible) the many optical aberrations that arise. Some aberrations will be present in any lens system. It is the job of the lens designer to balance these and produce a design that is suitable for photographic use and possibly mass production.
A cameralens (also known as photographic lens or photographic objective) is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body...
image. Several types of cameras exist, each suited to specific uses and offering unique capabilities. Single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras provide real-time, exact...
mirrorless camera (sometimes referred to as a mirrorless interchangeable-lenscamera, MILC, or digital single-lens mirrorless, DSLM) is a digital camera which...
glass lens, making the camera significantly more portable. The focal length depended on the refractive index and radius of the hemispherical lens, and...
A lens mount is an interface – mechanical and often also electrical – between a photographic camera body and a lens. It is a feature of camera systems...
with Bard (now Gemini) as of 2023. When directing the phone's camera at an object, Google Lens will attempt to identify the object by reading barcodes, QR...
Leica Camera AG (/ˈlaɪkʌ/) is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, and rifle scopes. The company...
attached to the cameralens which will also minimise lens flare, which is especially useful for outdoor photographers. When using an anamorphic lens, as is common...
filmless SLR (single lens reflex) camera was publicly demonstrated by Sony in August 1981. The Sony "Mavica" (magnetic still video camera) used a color-striped...
and cameras. They are also used as visual aids in glasses to correct defects of vision such as myopia and hypermetropia. The word lens comes from lēns, the...
camera production in 2005. Zeiss later produced lenses for the space industry and, more recently, has again produced high-quality 35 mm camera-lenses...
A zoom lens is a system of cameralens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed-focal-length...
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the so-called pinhole)—effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in...
to form an achromatic lens). To focus on an object at infinity, the distance from this single lens to focal plane of the camera (where the sensor or film...
point-and-shoot cameras. The few hybrid camera phones such as Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom and K Zoom were equipped with real optical zoom lenses. As camera phone technology...
A view camera is a large-format camera in which the lens forms an inverted image on a ground-glass screen directly at the film plane. The image is viewed...
The design of photographic lenses for use in still or cine cameras is intended to produce a lens that yields the most acceptable rendition of the subject...
prime lens is the main lens in a combination lens system. When the cameralens is used with some other optical device, such as a close-up lens, teleconverter...
The Canon FD lens mount is a physical standard for connecting a photographic lens to a 35mm single-lens reflex camera body. The standard was developed...
Harry Phillips (1873-1944). A camera with combined two-fixed focus panoramic camera in one mahogany-wooded box. The lenses were eight centimeters apart...
A stereo camera is a type of camera with two or more lenses with a separate image sensor or film frame for each lens. This allows the camera to simulate...
non-coupled rangefinder cameras display the focusing distance and require the photographer to transfer the value to the lens focus ring; cameras without built-in...
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