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  2. Photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    Very-large-aperture lenses designed to be useful in very low light conditions with apertures ranging from f/1.2 to f/0.9 are generally restricted to lenses of standard focal length because of the size and weight problems that would be encountered in telephoto lenses and the difficulty of building a very wide aperture wide angle lens with the ...

  3. f-number - Wikipedia

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    A 100 mm focal length f /4 lens has an entrance pupil diameter of 25 mm. A 100 mm focal length f /2 lens has an entrance pupil diameter of 50 mm. Since the area is proportional to the square of the pupil diameter, [6] the amount of light admitted by the f /2 lens is four times that of the f /4 lens.

  4. Lens speed - Wikipedia

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    A fast prime (fixed focal length) lens, the Canon 50mm f / 1.4 (left), and a slower zoom lens, the Canon 18–55mm f / 3.5–5.6 (right); this lens is faster at 18mm than it is at 55mm. Lens speed is the maximum aperture diameter, or minimum f-number , of a photographic lens .

  5. Focal length - Wikipedia

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    The focal point F and focal length f of a positive (convex) lens, a negative (concave) lens, a concave mirror, and a convex mirror.. The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power.

  6. Magnification - Wikipedia

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    where is the focal length, is the distance from the lens to the object, and = as the distance of the object with respect to the front focal point. A sign convention is used such that d 0 {\textstyle d_{0}} and d i {\displaystyle d_{i}} (the image distance from the lens) are positive for real object and image, respectively, and negative for ...

  7. Angle of view (photography) - Wikipedia

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    At low distances and high angles of view objects appear "foreshortened". As abovementioned, a camera's angle of view depends not only on the lens, but also on the image sensor or film. Digital sensors are usually smaller than 35 mm film , and this causes the lens to have a narrower angle of view than with 35 mm film, by a constant factor for ...

  8. Wide-angle lens - Wikipedia

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    The 1.5 indicates that the angle of view of a lens on the camera is the same as that of a 1.5 times longer focal length on a 35 mm full-frame camera, which explains why the crop factor is also known as a focal-length multiplier. For example, a 28 mm lens on the DSLR (given a crop factor of 1.5) would produce the angle of view of a 42 mm lens on ...

  9. Depth of field - Wikipedia

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    The depth of field, and thus hyperfocal distance, changes with the focal length as well as the f-stop. This lens is set to the hyperfocal distance for f /32 at a focal length of 100 mm. In optics and photography, hyperfocal distance is a distance from a lens beyond which all objects can be brought into an "acceptable" focus.