Optical Lens
Glossary Terms
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| "New Color Optical Lens" on a variant of the Time Magazine Camera image by andrecarol (Image rights) |
The phrase Optical Lens (or variants of this, such as "Color Optical Lens"), despite a grandly scientific sound, is most often seen on low-quality cameras with rudimentary, one-element lenses. It is strongly suggestive that the camera is a trashcam, or perhaps might be considered a toy camera. For example, the phrase appears on the lens barrel of the Holga. The "Olympia" camera (under its many guises) often displays the phrase as part of its deceptive attempts to resemble a better grade of camera.
By definition, any refractive lens obeys the rules of optics[1]. Thus the phrase is without meaniful content.
Notes
- ↑ In fact, even a lensless pinhole camera is affected by diffraction; and thus it also obeys the laws of optics.
