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camera lens with a variable focal length

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Subclass of
camera lens
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Commons category
Zoom lenses
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Zoom lens
different from
long-focus lens
opposite of
prime lens
used by
zooming
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Encyclopedic overview

Nikkor 28–200 mm zoom lens, extended to 200 mm at left and collapsed to 28 mm focal length at right

A zoom lens is a system of camera lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed-focal-length (FFL) lens (prime lens).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “zoom lens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.