lens

     

Lens can refer to:

Trivia about lens

  • It's the eye part highlighted here. Oh, look, all our camera operators are dying to buzz in!
  • The focal length is the distance from the center of one of these to the focal point
  • Plano-convex, biconvex & concavo-convex are 3 of the types of this optical component
  • To see objects close up, this part of the eye thickens
  • When buying a digital camera, check the optical zoom number, an indicator of the quality of this part
  • The name of this part of a camera was derived from its resemblance to a lentil seed
  • To cure a cataract, this part of the eye is replaced with an artificial one
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) To allow your eyes to see clearly at varying distances, fibers called the zonules of Zinn change the shape of this eye part that focuses light onto the retina
  • Zeiss' wide-angle Biogon, whose name indicates it captures life all around us, is one of these