"It's lens upon lens upon lens upon lens, " said the candle-entrepreneur Marjorie Gubelmann.
We could try to look at it through the lens of inactive users.
Near it sits a lens-shaped or lenticular galaxy called IC 4970, which appears to have crashed through the spiral in recent astronomical times.
It uses a lens with a diameter of just a few millimeters and covers a much larger field of vision than a conventional rear-view mirror.
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Can they let me try it with the smaller lens, rather than the kit lens?
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Through that lens, it might be tempting to view governmental social media activity as solely an exercise of openness.
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Thus was our Haier experience at CES, and to revisit it through our eyes lens, check out the gallery below.
It is a corrective lens I can use to click the world back into focus, to flip my inner lights back on.
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When I first wrote about Word Lens after it had been released on Friday by Quest Visual, the above YouTube clip had attracted just over 7, 000 hits.
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And although the IrisPen's graphics mode lets you capture bit-map images, its narrow lens restricts it to a series of half-inch bands -- and you can't stitch a series of scans together.
Combining a standard camera view, with a second wider view, filmed with a "fish eye" lens, it has been used to film a short live action film called Broken, as well as the Kill Mode animation.
The Coolpix 4800 has a resolution of "only" four megapixels, but they do toss in an 8.3x optical zoom lens (it's actually the smallest digital camera with that much optical zoom), which is nice since once most consumers realize they don't need more than four or five megapixels stuff like optical zoom and lens quality is going to be become a bigger and bigger deal.
With three glass lens elements in three groups, it can be used as a wide-angle lens equivalent with a single focal length of 30mm (35mm camera equivalent).
Driven by Lumus' patented Light-guide Optical Element, a micro-display pod, and the Optical Engine which projects light into the lens -- where it is reflected back to the user's eye via reflectors embedded in the lens -- the Lumus' DK-32 delivers a bright 720p 3D-capable display that only weighs 27 grams.
It is, in fact, a powerful lens with which to study a society because it offers a view, not just into intimate life, but also of the bigger picture: politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations that shape sexual attitudes and behaviors.
"It gives you a different lens through which to approach aging, " Dr. Schacter says.
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The camera looks reasonably rugged, with a plastic protected lens -- it's also water-resistant up to 10 meters.
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The image reflection is then focused through a lens, where it is magnified and projected onto the display, where there is virtually no space between pixels.
Because gravity pulls on light as well as matter, when light passes by a heavy object it bends as though it is passing through a lens.
"Right across the board, we need to be looking through the lens of what it has taught us and how we can keep doing better in the years to come, " Sharp says.
The high-performance 50mm F2.8 lens has the equivalent angle of view as 75mm on a 35mm lens, and it has been designed exclusively for the SIGMA DP3 Merrill to maximizes the sensor performance.
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Lanzmann hid it in a bag with a tiny hole for the lens, and had one of his cameramen point it at an unsuspecting interview subject.
The Carl Zeiss lens not only delivers spectacular image quality all the way to the edges of each frame, it incorporates a near-silent in-lens shutter and is far more compact than comparable lenses of interchangeable design.
Panasonic calls it the "world's smallest and lightest digital interchangeable lens camera, " a fancy of way of saying it's not a traditional DSLR nor is it a regular point and shoot -- it's something in between.
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It has a 10x optical zoon lens with an integrated optical image stabilizer.
It also sports a legendary NIKKOR lens with Vibration Reduction (VR) to minimize the effects of blur and camera shake.
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This, too, can have its magnifying power altered over time, but it works by implanting a permanent lens housing into the eye, and exchanging the lens as required.
The holder start in a locked vertical position, and to attach a lens you just bayonet it into place, securing the glass and allowing the holder to be lowered.
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Perhaps its greatest moment came in 1979 when it was the first telescope to observe a gravitational lens, an effect where a "massive" object bends electromagnetic radiation such as light around it.
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