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  2. History of photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    The problems of photographic lens design, creating a lens for a task that would cover a large, flat image plane, were well known even before the invention of photography: 23 due to the development of lenses to work with the focal plane of the camera obscura.

  3. E18 error - Wikipedia

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    The E18 error is an error message on Canon digital cameras. The E18 error occurs when anything prevents the zoom lens from properly extending or retracting. [1] The error has become notorious in the Canon user community as it can completely disable the camera, requiring expensive repairs.

  4. Lens flare - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Lens flare. Light coming from a narrow angle may be " trapped " and reflected between the surfaces of the lens elements. A lens flare happens when light is scattered or flared in a lens system, often in response to a bright light, producing a sometimes undesirable artifact in the image.

  5. Chromatic aberration - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic aberration. In optics, chromatic aberration ( CA ), also called chromatic distortion and spherochromatism, is a failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same point. [1] It is caused by dispersion: the refractive index of the lens elements varies with the wavelength of light.

  6. Perspective distortion - Wikipedia

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    The general assumption that "undoctored" photos cannot distort a scene is incorrect. Perspective distortion is particularly noticeable in portraits taken with wide-angle lenses at short camera-to-subject distances. They generally give an unpleasant impression, making the nose appear too large with respect to the rest of the face, and distorting ...

  7. Normal lens - Wikipedia

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    Normal lens. In photography and cinematography, a normal lens is a lens that reproduces a field of view that appears "natural" to a human observer. In contrast, depth compression and expansion with shorter or longer focal lengths introduces noticeable, and sometimes disturbing, distortion.

  8. Photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    For this, and many other reasons, camera lenses are unsuited for use as projector or enlarger lenses. The design of a fixed focal length lens (also known as prime lenses) presents fewer challenges than the design of a zoom lens.

  9. Focal length - Wikipedia

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    Camera lens focal lengths are usually specified in millimetres (mm), but some older lenses are marked in centimetres (cm) or inches. Focal length (f) and field of view (FOV) of a lens are inversely proportional. For a standard rectilinear lens, FOV = 2 arctan x / 2f, where x is the width of the film.

  10. Camera lens - Wikipedia

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    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.

  11. Optical aberration - Wikipedia

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    In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems, such as lenses, that causes light to be spread out over some region of space rather than focused to a point. [1] Aberrations cause the image formed by a lens to be blurred or distorted, with the nature of the distortion depending on the type of aberration.