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  2. Focal length - Wikipedia

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    For a thin lens in air, the focal length is the distance from the center of the lens to the principal foci (or focal points) of the lens.For a converging lens (for example a convex lens), the focal length is positive and is the distance at which a beam of collimated light will be focused to a single spot.

  3. Negative (photography) - Wikipedia

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    Color positive picture (A) and negative (B), monochrome positive picture (C) and negative (D) In photography , a negative is an image , usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film , in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest. [ 1 ]

  4. Lens - Wikipedia

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    Using a positive lens of focal length f, a virtual image results when S 1 < f, the lens thus being used as a magnifying glass (rather than if S 1 ≫ f as for a camera). Using a negative lens (f < 0) with a real object (S 1 > 0) can only produce a virtual image (S 2 < 0), according to the above formula.

  5. Optical power - Wikipedia

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    Converging lenses have positive optical power, while diverging lenses have negative power. When a lens is immersed in a refractive medium, its optical power and focal length change. For two or more thin lenses close together, the optical power of the combined lenses is approximately equal to the sum of the optical powers of each lens: P = P 1 ...

  6. Photographic processing - Wikipedia

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    Photographic processing or photographic development is the chemical means by which photographic film or paper is treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image. Photographic processing transforms the latent image into a visible image, makes this permanent and renders it insensitive to light.

  7. History of photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    A telephoto lens has a front positive cell and rear negative cell; [21] retrofocus lenses have the negative cell in front and positive cell to the rear. [56] The first inverted telephoto imaging lens was the Taylor, Taylor & Hobson 35mm f/2 (1931, UK) developed to provide back-focus space for the beamsplitter prism used by the full-color via ...

  8. Positive (photography) - Wikipedia

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    The technique can illustrate emotions ranging from crowdedness, to power, to chaos, or even to movement in a photo. Positive photos often busy and active so that most of the focus is drawn towards the subject. It is important to note that positive space in photography is usually balanced with negative space to make an appealing composition.

  9. Vergence (optics) - Wikipedia

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    For concave lenses, the focal point is on the back side of the lens, or the output side of the focal plane, and is negative in power. A lens with no optical power is called an optical window, having flat, parallel faces. The optical power directly relates to how large positive images will be magnified, and how small negative images will be ...