wide-angleadj.n.

1865 Photogr. Jrnl. 15 June 84/2 The double lens now before you is the prototype of the wide-angle doublet which I have recently introduced.

1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. xiii. 97 The use of a wide-angle lens..is..abominable in connection with the production of a living photograph.

1947 H. Lewis Photogr. Today 53 On analysing my shots..I usually find that 70 per cent. have been taken with a 5 cm. lens, 2 per cent. with a long-focus lens, and the rest with a 3.5 cm. wide-angle lens.

1972 Times 8 Jan. 8/6 It's very simple now filming in even the most confined interiors. One has a very wide choice of fast, wide-angle lenses.

2006 G. H. Smith Camera Lenses xvii. 122 You may wish to use a short-focus wide-angle lens or a long-focus tele lens.

1866 Eng. Mechanic 17 Aug. 446/2 This being the natural result of wide angle views taken with instruments of such a character.

1889 Amer. Ann. Photogr. 1890 114 A horizontal circle such as the upper edge of the capital of a column will seem to be distorted when seen at the side of the view in a wide-angle photograph.

1918 L. G. Rose Commerc. Photographer (1920) iv. 21 A comparatively short focus lens should be used, which will give the necessary wide-angle effect.

1953 Bull. d'Information de l'I.U.G.G. 2 621 Certain selected sites, manned by meteorologists, ionosphericists, etc., could employ wide-angle cameras.

1955 Mademoiselle Mar. 113 Oklahoma! is made in ‘fabulous new Todd- ao wide-angle, large-screen process’.

1983 Pop. Photogr. Aug. 18/3 These techniques..will also alleviate a frequent problem in wide-angle photography: an empty foreground.

2014 S. Tuttle Art of Everyday Photogr. i. 30/2 Wide-angle lenses record a wide-angle view of the scene and are great for landscape photography.

1921 Pop. Mech. June 814/2 These form wide-angle mirrors which show all the road to the rear as well as a considerable part of the landscape on both sides.

1965 C. Forsyte Double Death iii. 22 He kept most of his attention on the special wide-angle driving mirror that raked the traffic on his tail.

1980 Pop. Mech. Feb. 160/1 (heading) P-A-N-O-R-A-M-I-C, wide angle rear-view mirror.

2007 E. Farber Baby Lists xxii. 227 This wide angle mirror provides a view of the entire back seat, which is great if you have multiple passengers.

1932 San Antonio (Texas) Express 21 Apr. 20/6 Rosenfeld, whose intimate association with dealers in all parts of the United States gives him a particularly wide-angle view.

1977 Nature Conservancy Mar. 22/2 The resurrection of Talamanca's traditional cacao farms represents one of Wings of the Americas' wide-angle approaches.

2014 A. Kohn Myth of Spoiled Child iii. 51 A wide-angle view of our society reveals a landscape dotted with millions of well-meaning but misguided moms and dads.

1868 L. Price Man. Photogr. Manip. (ed. 2) i. 54 The ‘wide angles’ have a distinct tendency to exaggerate the linear perspective and enlarge foreground objects in the pictures given by them.

1883 Photogr. News 15 June 370/1 It is when we come to the wide-angles too much resorted to in these days that the appearance becomes obtrusively objectionable.

1921 Camera Mag. Aug. 395 As lenses approach 90° they are classified as extreme wide-angles in distinction from medium wide-angles.

1974 J. Irving 158-Pound Marriage i. 11 Forget the wide-angle. (I see Edith and Severin Winter only in close-ups.)

1995 Pop. Photogr. Oct. 30 (advt.) Telephotos show you just a small piece of what's out there. Wide-angles..show you more than the eye can see.

2015 A. Manriquez & T. McCluskey Video Production 101 i. 45 Telephoto lenses flatten space; wide-angles emphasize space.