Wide-angle lens
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Subject Field: Photography, Optics

A lens of short focal length that affects a scene's perspective by distorting straight lines near the edges of the frame and by exaggerating the distance between foreground and background planes. Bordwell & Thompson			Sinonimi Short focal lenght lens Short lens - Hyponyms - Fish-eye lens See Also Zoom lens Focal length Bibliography Index Home Conceptual tree
Context: A recent Australian automobile commercial shows off the Louma crane's strengths to great advantage. In the spot, a wide-angle lens follows a car driving across an arid desert. Samuelson Attestation: 3 Grandangolo Reliability: 3