In a multiple lens optical system, the lens farthest from the eye.
Example sentencesExamples
A converging field lens will shorten the eye-relief (the distance from the eyelens to the exit pupil) of a telescope.
But according to Honoratio Fabri in his Synopsis Optica (Review of Optics) of 1667, the first microscope with a field lens was built to Monconys's specification in Augsburg in 1660, so anticipating Hooke by several years.
It also features mechanical interference in the three-element field lens.
But, unlike the standard geologist's field lens, this one has a camera.
Definition of field lens in US English:
field lens
noun
In a multiple lens optical system, the lens farthest from the eye.
Example sentencesExamples
But, unlike the standard geologist's field lens, this one has a camera.
A converging field lens will shorten the eye-relief (the distance from the eyelens to the exit pupil) of a telescope.
It also features mechanical interference in the three-element field lens.
But according to Honoratio Fabri in his Synopsis Optica (Review of Optics) of 1667, the first microscope with a field lens was built to Monconys's specification in Augsburg in 1660, so anticipating Hooke by several years.