Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An anastigmatic lens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A system of lenses in which the astigmatic aberration is overcome and a flat field obtained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images
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Examples
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Both were fitted with anastigmat lenses, which eliminated distortion and preserved the perpendicular lines even of off-center images, making them especially well suited for architectural photography.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Both were fitted with anastigmat lenses, which eliminated distortion and preserved the perpendicular lines even of off-center images, making them especially well suited for architectural photography.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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I sometimes feel that an anastigmat lens is best and sometimes that a soft focus lens is best for some particular work, and sometimes I feel that if
Pictorial Photography in America 1921 Pictorial Photographers of America
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I could get only one I would prefer an anastigmat to a soft focus.”
Pictorial Photography in America 1921 Pictorial Photographers of America
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