Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around this difficulty. Instead of having a single lens, as human eyes do, to focus an image on the retina, insect eyes have many fine tubes, each tipped with a small lens. Each lens views a small part of a wide field, and the light that enters the lenses follows the tubes and forms a mosaic image. Some of the tubes are curved, but the light follows them just the same...
H. H. Hopkins and N. S. Kapany in Britain and A.C.S. van Heel in The Netherlands have copied this system by binding transparent fibers (glass or plastic) into compact bundles. When a lens forms an image on one end of the bundle, each fiber transmits a small part of it...
Last week, after nine years of development work. Zeiss brought out a new camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market. From its $2,000.000 plant in Stuttgart the first production models of the Contaflex were shipped to the U.S.A precision instrument with...
Now and then the camera work goes amiss when photographer Joseph Martin covers his lens with a black mist. He has presented at least half the film in almost complete darkness, and at times the scene could as well be a parody of Dante's Inferno. The music too does...
Amidst the glamor and glitter of Manhattan's annual Gotham Debutante Ball, photographers closed in on a pair of lens-catchers, one of the year's most photogenic mother-and-daughter combinations, perennially beautiful Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Debutante Mary Frances Griffin, 18.