Noun: wide-angle lens
- 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 wide-angle lens to capture the entire room in one shot";
- fisheye lens, fisheye
Derived forms: wide-angle lenses
Type of: camera lens, optical lens
Encyclopedia: Wide-angle lens