zoom lens

noun

|Updated on: 19 Aug 2018

Definition of zoom lens

: a lens (as of a camera or projector) in which the image size can be varied continuously while the image remains in focus

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Recent Examples of zoom lens from the Web

The company taught its software to identify the patterns of a person on the move, allowing it to avoid the expensive zoom lenses and thermal sensors used in competing systems, Schimpf says.

— steven levy, WIRED, "Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build A Border Wall," 11 June 2018
Her zoom lens captured the glass spraying like confetti.

— kyle hopkins, Anchorage Daily News, "Bear killed after it smashes SUV window and climbs inside at Anchorage trailhead," 6 July 2018
Once the focus is set, use lens bands or tape the lens focus ring and the zoom ring to prevent accidentally knocking the lens out of focus and preventing zoom lens creep.

— michael stillwell, Popular Mechanics, "How To Photograph a Rocket Launch," 6 July 2018
Luckey claims this kind of deep learning, which has been perfected by computer vision experts over the years, can let Anduril bypass the expensive zoom lenses and thermal detectors offered up by other border security startups.

— shoshana wodinsky, The Verge, "Palmer Luckey’s border control tech has already caught dozens of people," 11 June 2018
It's priced at $599.95 body-only — $100 more than the X-A5, $300 less than the X-T20 — or $699.95 in a bundle with the new 15-45mm f/3.5-5.6 power zoom lens.

— sam byford, The Verge, "Fujifilm announces new X-T100 mirrorless camera for $599," 24 May 2018
In the book, Anna Fox, following a mysterious, traumatic event, becomes a recluse who takes to spying on her neighbors with a camera outfitted with a powerful zoom lens.

— nicole sperling, HWD, "Amy Adams’s Dark New Project Could Be the Next Gone Girl," 27 Apr. 2018
The video moves on from CRT to LCD to show (with a zoom lens) how the three colored subpixels work to simulate colors, or white.

— samuel axon, Ars Technica, "Video demonstrates the marvel of CRT displays at 380,000 frames per second," 23 Jan. 2018
On a recent afternoon, Joyce Hamilton, 67, and two of her friends wandered through the paths equipped with binoculars and zoom lenses on their cameras.

— rick jervis, USA TODAY, "Texas wildlife refuge could become fierce battleground over Trump's proposed border wall," 9 Feb. 2018

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