noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a camera lens
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A high quality camera lens is the key to taking good photographs.
contact lens
fish-eye lens
telephoto lens
wide-angle lens
zoom lens
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
optical
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He did not look like a businessman about to discuss optical lenses in the board room at the Zeiss works.
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Nikon use an optical zoom lens that has a 2.5x range.
thick
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A young woman wearing glasses with thick lenses sat on a huge sack, reading a letter.
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One man was reading a Hebrew magazine and wore eyeglasses with thick lenses .
wide
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It is also, merely, the story of a pop group but viewed through a wide angle lens .
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Nikon for instance produce a telephoto lens , several wide angle lenses and a fish-eye for their range of models.
■ NOUN
camera
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Hilliard's cibachrome shows a woman with her head turned away from the camera lens .
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The camera lens , of course, has its own inherent limitations.
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On a purely practical basis, the paintings in this instance work better than the camera lens .
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He had a momentary glimpse of himself from above, as if through a camera lens .
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Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens , which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
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Readers interested in the deployment of experimental camera lenses and the like may get the most out of what LoBrutto offers.
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I can gaze seductively into a camera lens and give you that look of pure lust and desire.
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In either event, the script is projected on to a piece of glass located directly over the camera lenses .
contact
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I then got a bad infection in my left eye which my doctor suggested was due to the contact lens .
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But in infant monkeys wearing an opaque contact lens , this changes.
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A contact lens holder - I recognized it, Mum wears them - still with the lenses in them.
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Amongst these are contact lens wetting solutions, comfort drops and artificial tears, which, perhaps surprisingly, have similar compositions.
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Unlike other soft contact lenses , they're designed so that you can sleep and wake up in them.
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But Tucker was fine; he had just lost a contact lens .
spectacle
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Although spectacle lenses will correct errors, they can not replace vision that does not exist.
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Each spectacle lens then filters one image out, based on its color or polarity.
telephoto
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These were made discreetly with the aid of a telephoto lens and with the full co-operation of the club.
■ VERB
look
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Jaq looked in vain through a lens for identification marks, badges, or names.
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When you looked through the jar filled with water, you were looking through a magnifying lens .
use
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Nikon use an optical zoom lens that has a 2.5x range.
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Elicit that they are used as lenses . 2.
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The technique involves the use of a micro-beam of electrons which are focused on the sample surface using electrostatic lenses .
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We wondered whether it might be possible to do the same thing using glasses or contact lenses .
view
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Much of this is because the changes identified in the 1960s are viewed through different historical lenses .
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Everything about the schools was viewed through the lens of progressive education.
wear
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He said that I shouldn't wear the lenses until the infection was cleared.
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A young woman wearing glasses with thick lenses sat on a huge sack, reading a letter.
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I didn't wear the lenses for six months.
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But in infant monkeys wearing an opaque contact lens , this changes.
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One man was reading a Hebrew magazine and wore eyeglasses with thick lenses .
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At least you remembered to wear the lens in the right one.
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Kristy is the one with the green contact lenses and Kathy is the one wearing the blue lenses.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fast film/lens
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Minerals giving very low intensity emission, such as quartz grains, required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 115mm zoom lens
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Jan wears glasses with thick lenses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Analysis Have each group use two different jars and draw what they see through the lenses as accurately as possible.
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And with contact lenses, who knows?
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I can gaze seductively into a camera lens and give you that look of pure lust and desire.
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I didn't wear the lenses for six months.
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The managers' experience was an imperfect lens with which to make sense of their new position.
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They are used to increase the comfort of dry eye sufferers and contact lens wearers.
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Travels in time through the photographer's lens .
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Without lenses, they can not be seeing an image.