: the distance of a focus from the surface of a lens or curved mirror
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The company has been testing several new features, including major upgrades to video recording and a variable aperture system to give users more control over focal length.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025 The cameras see major upgrades, with an 8x optical zoom offering the equivalent of a 200mm focal length.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025 The best lenses for astrophotography often combine a fast aperture with a wide-angle focal length for capturing as much sky as possible.—Harry Bennett, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Although the telephoto lens of the V60 defaults to a 70mm optical focal length, Vivo's software can do a convincing crop to produce what is effectively a 100mm portrait shot.—Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for focal length
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