The lazy man's dolly or tracking shot. Used effectively only in cases where speed is needed to grab the audiences' attention.
"We're losing light. Let's use a zoom lens instead of going through the difficulties of pre-planning and executing a superior tracking shot."
by creedmoor October 11, 2004
verb. To masturbate at one's desk at work while talking to someone on the phone.
etymology: see Len Brown (Mayor of Auckland, NZ)
etymology: see Len Brown (Mayor of Auckland, NZ)
by Muntus October 15, 2013
This word commonly confuses all the new users to SkatePerception.com. For some reason people can't put two and two together and figure out that the term "Long Lens" is not an actual additional lens to your video camera, but it is infact the stock lens that is built in already.
A fisheye lens is an attachable lens onto the Bayo mount or the thread mount.
A long lens is the lens already in your camera.
TA FUCKING DA.
A long lens is the lens already in your camera.
TA FUCKING DA.
by LukeS. February 02, 2009
To be at work for three hours, of which 2 hours are spent on Facebook, then take off for lunch and never return, and clock an 8-hour day.
by Bossman12345 July 06, 2010
a Zoom lens is a lens on a camera (still and video both) to get a closer shot of the subject. There are lenses that have both optical zoom and digital zoom capabilities (optical zoom being the better of the two)
by DazzDeLaMorte March 09, 2007
by Nick D February 27, 2003
A lens which focuses light rays from a source into parallel paths, thus focusing the image relayed at infinity. Highly useful in Head-Up-Display systems, for obvious reasons.
This will be the 2nd in my series of largely useless technical jargon, which will continue as it is more fun writing this than writing a report on the performance and aerodynamics of an MAV.
-For more amusing and less contrived definitions, look up my ones for France or Europe. They're OK.
-For more amusing and less contrived definitions, look up my ones for France or Europe. They're OK.
by victorhadin December 07, 2003