Lens Collection (#16)

Hover fly eye, SEM

Flys eye, SEM
Flys eye. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a flys compound eye. Protective bristles cover its surface. The eye is made up of numerous visual units, known as ommatidia

Compound eye of a bee, SEM
Compound eye of a bee. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of numerous lenses making up the surface of a compound eye from a honey bee (Apis sp.)

Lens fibre of an eye
Lens fibre from an eye. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the fibre-like cells that form the crystalline lens of the eye

Contact lens seen on a fingertip
Contact lens. View of a contact lens on a finger- tip prior to being placed on the eye. Contact lenses are worn directly on the eye to correct imperfect vision

HST view of gravitational lens 0024+1654
Gravitational lens. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image showing the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. At centre is a cluster of galaxies (yellow) called 0024+1654 about 5 billion light years away

Gravitational lensing. Artwork showing how a telescope can see two distorted images of a distant quasar (top right), due to the quasars light being bent by an intervening galaxy

Dark matter ring in galaxy cluster
Dark matter ring in the galaxy cluster CI 0024+17, Hubble Space Telescope image. The ring is seen surrounding a central concentration of dark matter (coloured blue here)

Einstein ring caused by gravitational lensing
Einstein ring. Coloured combined radio and infra- red image of an Einstein ring in the system B1938+ 666. An Einstein ring is formed when two massive objects are perfectly aligned with each other as

Diagram of gravitational focusing of double quasar
Diagram illustrating how gravitational focusing makes us perceive two images of the quasar 0957+561. The quasar is at far left, Earth at far right

Video camera parts, computer artwork
Video camera. Computer artwork showing an exploded view of a digital video camera. The lens (right) receives light which is picked up by a CCD (charge-coupled device)

MEMS production, quality control
MEMS production. Microscope being used to carry out quality control checks on a silicon wafer of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) devices

Flatbed scanner
Scan head of a flatbed scanner. Flatbed or desktop scanners capture images from printed media using the scan head. The scan head contains a lamp (white tube) that illuminates the image

Glaucoma. Artwork showing the flow of the watery aqueous humour (arrows) in a human eye with glaucoma, abnormally high pressure in the eye

Shortsightedness. Artwork of section through an eyeball affected by shortsightedness, or myopia. This is a condition in which distant objects appear blurred

Artwork of the structure of the front of an eye

False-colour SEM of cells from lens of hu

Illustration of the fine structure of the eye lens. This is the internal optical component (also called the crystalline lens) of the eye, responsible for adjusting focus

Magnified eye
MODEL RELEASED. Magnified eye seen through a magnifying glass

Camera and photographer. This camera is made by Nikon

View of a pair of spectacles
Spectacles. View of a pair of spectacles, or glasses. These consist of a frame in which lenses are mounted. The lenses compensate for focusing deficiencies in the wearers own eyes

Wide-angle zoom camera lens

Fern frond morphology
MODEL RELEASED. Fern frond morphology. Person studying a fern frond with a magnifying glass

Microscope lenses. Close-up of the objective lenses mounted on the quick-change turret of an optical microscope. Each lens can be swivelled into place to provide a different magnification

5x4 medium format camera
5x4 inch medium format camera. The lens is at left, directing light onto the plate at the back of the concertina-like extension

Hipparchus, Ancient Greek astronomer
Hipparchus (c.190-c.120 BC), Ancient Greek astronomer, with the armillary sphere he invented (lower right) and representations of the signs of the zodiac in the night sky

Contact lens use. Woman putting in a contact lens

Eye lens, SEM
Eye lens. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cells from the lens (crystalline lens) of the eye. The cells are in a stacked linear, fibre-like arrangement

Developing pig eye, light micrograph. From right the structures seen are: the cornea (brown), the lens (purple), the retina (pink), the choroid (dark brown line) and the sclera (white of the eye)

Failing eyesight, conceptual image

Eye lens cells, SEM
Eye lens. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a freeze-fractured lens (crystalline lens) of an eye, showing stacked cuboidal epithelium cells

DNA sequencing

Dermatological examination
MODEL RELEASED. Dermatological examination. Dermatologist using a magnifying glass to examine the skin of a patients face

Trilobite eye fossil, SEM
Trilobite eye fossil, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Trilobites were arthropods, the shelled segmented invertebrates that include crabs and insects and spiders

Trilobite fossil, SEM
Trilobite fossil, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Trilobites were arthropods, the shelled segmented invertebrates that include crabs and insects and spiders

Kinegraphe camera, 19th century
Kinegraphe camera. Photographer operating a Kinegraphe, an early French camera, the design of which first appeared in the late 1880s

Old style bellow camera with Meyer Gorlitz lens

Mosquito head, SEM
Mosquito head. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the head of a mosquito, showing its large compound eyes. Each eye consists of many lenses (spheres) known as ommatidia

Early microscope design, historical image
Early microscope design, coloured historical image. Diagram of an early microscope made by the English dyer and amateur astronomer Stephen Gray (1666-1736)

Leica digital camera
393084 05/11/2009 A Leica M8.2 Safari digital camera with a titanium frame presented at Leica Camera AGs major showroom, which opened on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow

Bird eye anatomy, artwork. The structure of a birds eye is similar to that of humans and other vertebrates, with a clear cornea forming a bulge (left) in front of the lens (oval)

Eye lens and accommodation, diagram
Eye lens and accommodation. Diagram showing the process by which the eye changes the shape of the lens when changing between close vision and distant vision. This process is known as accommodation

Research Microscope computer artwork
The optical microscope, often referred to as the " light microscope", is a type of microscope which uses visible light and a system of lenses to magnify images of small samples

Eye lens and accommodation, artwork
Eye lens and accommodation. Artwork showing the process by which the eye changes the shape of the lens when changing between close vision and distant vision. This process is known as accommodation

Laser research. Laser probe being used in research on image processing systems. This research is taking place at the Institute of Image Processing Systems in Samara, Russia

Newtons rings effect. Montage of several examples of the Newtons rings effect that occurs when two pieces of glass are placed together

Magnifying glass C009 / 7009
Magnifying glass

Aperture flare. Close-up of the bladed aperture of a camera lens, demonstrating the phenomenon of aperture flare. The blades of the aperture ring open

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