camera lens

/ˌkæmərə lɛnz/

Definitions of camera lens

1. noun

   a lens that focuses the image in a camera
   synonyms: optical lens

   types:

   closeup lens

   a photographic lens with a short focal length used to take pictures at short ranges

   portrait lens

   a compound camera lens with a relatively high aperture

   telephoto lens, zoom lens

   a camera lens that magnifies the image

   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

   type of:

   lens, lens system, lense

   a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images