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10 unusual facts about lens


1998 in England

26 June - England qualify for the next stage of the World Cup by beating Colombia 2-0 in Lens, with David Beckham scoring the first with a trademark 30 yard free kick, with Darren Anderton the 2nd.

Alexander Lion

Serving in Lens, he rescued wounded and dying soldiers from the battlefield.

Battle of Hill 70

The industrial coal city of Lens, France had fallen under German control in October 1914 during the Race to the Sea.

Bon Secours Sisters

For example, in northern France, four large schools which had been started in Lille and Lens to serve the local mining population were closed, based on accusations that they were not in compliance with the institute's approved charter.

Harold Cole

His unit was sent to France in late 1939 as a part of the British Expeditionary Force and was stationed in Loison-sous-Lens.

Lens, Switzerland

The platform at the top commands a spectacular view up and down the Rhone valley, from Martigny (to the west), as far as Leuk (to the east).

Leonard Crunelle

Leonard Crunelle (July 8, 1872 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais – 1944) was an American sculptor.

Louvre-Lens

On Dec 4, 2012, 8 years after Jean-Pierre Raffarin chose Lens to build the new museum, President François Hollande, alongside the First Lady Valérie Trierweiler, the Ministry of Culture Aurélie Filippetti, The director of Le Louvre Henri Loyrette, The Mayor of Lens Guy Delcourt, the previous Prime Ministers Lionel Jospin and Pierre Mauroy officially inaugurates the Louvre-Lens.

"France abandoned us when the coal stopped, and we became a ghost town," said Pas-de-Calais president Daniel Percheron.

Noyelles-sous-Lens

Noyelles-sous-Lens was the birthplace of Edita Piekha (born 1937), Russian actress and singer of French and Polish heritage.


Adjustable-focus eyeglasses

Another type of opto-mechanical lens is the design of Joshua Silver, and uses liquid pressure against a diaphragm to control focus of a lens.

Current Bifocals and progressive lenses are static, in that the user has to change their eye position to look through the portion of the lens with the focal power corresponding to the distance of the object.

Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick

In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers.

Adrian Steirn

The unique perspective of each image is obtained by his choice of lens, aperture, ISO and composition whilst preserving the integrity of the original image.

Andrew Stark

Similar to Cartier-Bresson, he shoots in black and white on his Konica TC with 28 or 40mm lens only for his candid photography.

Aston Martin DBS

The Aston Martin DBS also features an optional Bang & Olufsen sound system with 13 active loudspeakers including two tweeters with ALT (Acoustic Lens Technology).

Bazaar-e-Husn

Arshia Sattar in a review of the translation, states that "Premchand has always used his women characters as the lens through which society is critiqued. A reading his 'Sevasadan' in English translation almost 90 years after it was written brings home the fact that little has changed: women are still striving to control their own destinies".

Bokeh

Lens manufacturers including Nikon, Minolta, and Sony make lenses designed with specific controls to change the rendering of the out-of-focus areas.

Canon EF 28–300mm lens

When used on a digital EOS body with a field of view compensation factor of 1.3x, such as the Canon EOS-1D Mark III, it provides a narrow field of view, equivalent to a 36–390mm lens mounted on a 35mm frame body.

Canon EF 40mm lens

The Canon EF 40mm lens is a standard prime lens with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 featuring Canon's new stepping motor (STM) technology.

Canon PowerShot G

The G series offers features such as the use of a lithium-ion battery, an articulated LCD screen (G7, G9, G10 and G15 have a fixed panel), Raw image format capture (all models except G7), a lens with a wider maximum aperture than standard PowerShot models, remote capture (except G11), and faster electronics.

Catadioptric system

The idea of replacing the complicated Schmidt corrector plate with an easy to manufacture full aperture spherical meniscus lens (a meniscus corrector shell) to create a wide field telescope occurred to at least 4 optical designers in early 1940s war-torn Europe, including Albert Bouwers (1940), Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1941), K. Penning, and Dennis Gabor (1941).

Cataract surgery

Metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over time lead to the development of the cataract and loss of transparency, causing impairment or loss of vision.

Dennis Stock

From 1957 until the early 1960s, Stock aimed his lens at jazz musicians, photographing such people as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington.

Focal-plane shutter

In the Kodak Cirkut (1907, USA) and Globus Globuscope (1981, USA) cameras, the entire camera and lens revolved as the film was pulled past the slit in the opposite direction.

Fujifilm X-mount

These include Fujifilm's 'XF' and 'XC' lens line, bearing Fujifilm's moniker "Fujinon" which is used for optics within the company, and the 'Touit' line from Carl Zeiss AG.

Gervais Martel

Under the leadership of Martel, Lens won their first ever Ligue 1 title in the 1997–98 season and won their first ever Coupe de la Ligue title the following year.

Global Film Initiative

In 2004, it entered into a partnership with First Run Features for distribution of all films in the Global Lens Film Series, and in 2006 it moved its offices from the West Village of New York to the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco, California (USA).

Horse trading

It is likely the 1898 publication of Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum – whose title character saw all business through the lens of horse trading – played a key role in this.

ILCE

Sony ILCE camera, a designation used by Sony since 2013 for mirrorless interchangeable-lens digital system cameras with E-mount

Jeremain Lens

On the 6th of October 2013, Lens scored his first 2 goals in the Ukrainian premiere league in a crushing 9-1 victory over FC Metalurh Donetsk.

Lazy Day

"Lazy Days", a song from the album Life thru a Lens by Robbie Williams

Louis Lens

The biography of Louis Lens, his obtentions, and his challenges, particularly the obtention of Hybrid Musk Roses, are described in detail in Ivo Pauwels's book Louis Lens - De elegantie en de roos.

Love Is the Only Master I'll Serve

Claron McFadden, Ian Honeyman, Henk Lauwers, Derek Lee Ragin, Elka Simeonova, Galya Haralambieva, Paul Gérimon, Clara-Lane Lens, Angelite -Bulgarian Voices

Macrarene californica

This species is usually covered with Polyzoa, Lithothamnion, and other adherent matter, which obscures its appearance, but the shell itself is so rude, spongy, and bleached in appearance that the actual surface is often discriminated only when examined with a lens.

Magnifying glass

The earliest evidence of a magnifying device was a joke in Aristophanes's The Clouds from 424 BC, where magnifying lenses to start kindling were sold in a pharmacy, and Pliny the Elder's "lens", a glass globe filled with water, used to cauterize wounds.

Mec 16 SB

It is the first camera with built-in exposure meter, capable of measuring the light through the lens, the so called Through-the-lens metering (TTL).

Old Presque Isle Light

A Fresnel lens that was associated with this light was donated and is now on display at the Beaver Island Head Light.

Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

A 4-door sedan was added to the Supreme lineup, with a new front end and a slight taillight lens restyle (resembling a touch-tone dial or Rubik's Cube - this lens style was used until 1984).

Olympus E-300

The body was largely of ABS plastic over a metal frame; the lens mount was metal, and there was a metal covered area on the left top of the camera.

Photographic lens design

The last important Zeiss innovation before the Second World War was the technique of applying anti-reflective coating to lens surfaces invented by Olexander Smakula in 1935.

Radiation

Infrared may be detected at a distance from the radiating objects by "feel." Infrared sensing snakes can detect and focus infrared by use of a pinhole lens in their heads.

Rollei 35

Waaske's little camera was presented at Photokina in 1966 as Rollei 35, with a better lens – the Zeiss Tessar 3.5/40mm lens, a state-of-the-art Gossen CdS-exposure meter and a precision-made diaphragm shutter made by Compur, using Waaske's patented shutter design.

Sallaumines

Sallaumines has a train station (Gare de Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Lille, and another one (Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Valenciennes.

Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson

At Erquinghem-le-Sec on 1 June, he downed an Albatros C.III in addition to an Albatros D.V, and the next day (2 June) he got another two victories near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, this time two Pfalz D.IIIs.

SD14

Sigma SD14 digital single-lens reflex camera produced by the Sigma Corporation of Japan

Sigma 10–20mm f/4–5.6 EX DC HSM lens

The Sigma 10-20mm lens is an enthusiast-level, ultra wide-angle rectilinear zoom lens made by Sigma Corporation specifically for use with small format digital SLRs.

Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens

It has a bulb-like aspherical lens, similar to notable wide-angle and fisheye lenses such as the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED, Nikon AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED, or Tokina AT-X 107 DX AF 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 fisheye lens.

Sony Alpha 550

The Sony Alpha a550 incorporates Sony's patented SteadyShot INSIDE stabilisation system which works with any attached lens.

Steve Barnard

Having previously drummed for Robbie Williams on the Life Thru a Lens album and tours, Barnard joined Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros after Jed Lynch left.

The Four Elements of Architecture

Published in 1851, it is an attempt to explain the origins of architecture through the lens of anthropology.

Toledo Harbor Light

In 2008, the Fresnel lens was relocated to Quilter Lodge in Maumee Bay State Park, which is within sight of the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse on clear days.

Virtual tour

This is because there is sophisticated math and camera-lens profiles that are needed to create the desired panorama image which is based on your camera's depth of field (FOV) and the type of lens you used.

Zeev Zalevsky

The company is developing a new physical lens for EDOF.

Zonule of Zinn

The zonule of Zinn (Zinn's membrane, ciliary zonule) (after Johann Gottfried Zinn) is a ring of fibrous strands connecting the ciliary body with the crystalline lens of the eye.