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fixed-focus lens

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fixed-focus lens [′fikst ‚fō·kəs ′lenz]
(optics)
A lens whose focus is invariable, as on inexpensive cameras with no mechanism for adjusting focus but so designed that all objects from a few feet away to infinity are tolerably in focus.


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And even within the range of focal lengths covered by our zooms, there may remain a fixed-focus lens we use occasionally.
The camera measures about 5 inches by 2 inches, has a fixed-focus lens, and a shutter speed of 1/30 to 1/2000.
Instamatics have fixed-focus lens systems that present objects in focus between about 4 ft.
 
 
 
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