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  2. Aphakia - Wikipedia

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    Aphakia is the absence of the lens of the eye, due to surgical removal, such as in cataract surgery, a perforating wound or ulcer, or congenital anomaly. It causes a loss of ability to maintain focus ( accommodation ), high degree of farsightedness ( hyperopia ), [1] and a deep anterior chamber. Complications include detachment of the vitreous ...

  3. Porro prism - Wikipedia

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    Double Porro prism systems are used in small optical telescopes to re-orient an inverted image (an arrangement is known as an image erection system), and especially in many binoculars where they both erect the image and provide a longer, folded distance between the objective lenses and the eyepieces. When there is an air gap between the two ...

  4. Frazier lens - Wikipedia

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    A Frazier Lens on a RED One camera. The Frazier lens is a special camera lens designed by Australian photographer Jim Frazier. The Frazier lens provides an appearance of a massive depth of field, allowing the foreground and background of an image to be in focus. Frazier's lenses have been widely used in Hollywood and wildlife cinematography.

  5. History of the single-lens reflex camera - Wikipedia

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    The history of the single-lens reflex camera (SLR) begins with the use of a reflex mirror in a camera obscura described in 1676, but it took a long time for the design to succeed for photographic cameras. The first patent was granted in 1861, and the first cameras were produced in 1884, but while elegantly simple in concept, they were very ...

  6. Achromatic lens - Wikipedia

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    In an achromatic lens, two wavelengths are brought into the same focus, here red and blue. An achromatic lens or achromat is a lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration. Achromatic lenses are corrected to bring two wavelengths (typically red and blue) into focus on the same plane.

  7. Nikon 1 series - Wikipedia

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    Nikon 1 J1 with Nikkor 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6, 10mm f/2.8 pancake, and the 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 lens in white. The Nikon 1 series is a discontinued camera line from Nikon, originally announced on 21 September 2011. [1] The cameras utilized Nikon 1-mount lenses, and featured 1" CX format sensors. The series included the Nikon 1 V1, J1, J2, [2] and S1 ...

  8. Petzval lens - Wikipedia

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    Petzval portrait lens. The Petzval objective, or Petzval lens, is the first photographic portrait objective lens (with a 160 mm focal length) in the history of photography. [1] It was developed by the Slovak mathematics professor Joseph Petzval in 1840 in Vienna, [2] with technical advice provided by Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer [ de].

  9. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Description ( notes ) AC. Anterior chamber. fluid-filled space between the iris and the endothelium. AC 4/4. Grade 4 anterior chamber angle. open angle between cornea and iris. AC 3/4. Grade 3 anterior chamber angle.