1. A camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the centre and increasingly distorted in the periphery
   "The photographer used a fisheye lens to capture the entire room in one shot";
   - wide-angle lens, fisheye

Derived forms: fisheye lenses

Type of: camera lens, optical lens

Encyclopedia: Fisheye lens