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The shallow depth of focus of a long focal-length macro lens isolates individual blooms and insects against a diffuse background of floral colours.
Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011
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Within its compact, lightweight body, the Pentax X90 features a high-magnification optical 26-times zoom lens offering a focal-length coverage between 26mm wide angle to 676mm super telephoto in the 35mm format.
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Although they won't all run as packages, introducing variation to every assignment makes for a more interesting newspaper because the best shot from each assignment will likely result in a different focal-length lens, perspective, depth of field or detail.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Although they won't all run as packages, introducing variation to every assignment makes for a more interesting newspaper because the best shot from each assignment will likely result in a different focal-length lens, perspective, depth of field or detail.
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Common Misconception: "The laws of optics dictate that these (short focal-length) lenses have a large depth of field."
doggdot.us 2008
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Each one is equipped with a short focal-length lens with 1.6 times zoom and features low fan noise of 20dB in low lamp mode, providing flexible installation options in many home settings.
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Architecture features traditional rough brick walls, the very narrow stone-paved lanes that are a characteristic of Lugang and images of Taiwanese roofs taken from an elevated height with a long focal-length lens, capturing a terraced landscape of the distinctive tiled Taiwanese roofs with curving gables.
Archive 2006-01-01 Michael Turton 2006
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At all three mirrors a precise record was kept of the ever-changing focal-length and azimuth settings.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988
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By 1950 they'd developed a hundred-inch focal-length lens.
Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963
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Planned by GILL, the photographs were taken at the Cape Observatory with a DALLMEYER lens with 15 cm. aperture and a focal-length of 135 cm. Plates of 30 × 30 cm.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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