portrait lens
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of portrait lens
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Its cameras are thought to consist of a main 48-megapixel camera, an 8-megapixel ultrawide with a 120-degree field of view, a 5-megapixel macro, a 2-megapixel portrait lens, and a 13-megapixel selfie camera.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022
But your pictures that go beyond 3x zoom will be much sharper than before, and it should make for a better portrait lens.
From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021
The edges of the photo are blurred, suggesting there wasn’t time to swap out a portrait lens for a landscape lens.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2018
With it I got a portrait lens and a boxed roll of 120 film from 1953.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2015
A method was then referred to of making a rapid portrait lens cover a very large angle by pivoting at its optical center and traversing the plate in the manner of the pantoscopic camera.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various
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