wide-angle

[ wahyd-ang-guhl ]

adjective

, Photography.

1. of or relating to a lens having a relatively wide angle of view, generally 45° or more, and a focal length of less than 50 millimeters.
2. employing, or made with, a wide-angle lens:

   a wide-angle camera; a wide-angle shot.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wide-angle¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

The researchers are now designing metalenses with complex functionalities -- such as color or wide-angle imaging -- and developing neural network methods for enhancing the imaging quality of these advanced metalenses.

From Science Daily

Each observatory used an array of wide-angle cameras to measure the brightness of thousands of individual stars across the entire sky.

From Science Daily

Krupp suggested shooting wide-angle views with a smartphone; the sun in the photo will look small, “but you’ve got the landscape around there.”

From Los Angeles Times

For those interested in taking photos of the eclipse with their smartphone, Krupp suggested shooting wide-angle views.

From Los Angeles Times

But say you’re instead looking for a wide-angle shot of a “hot pink plastic saguaro cactus with large arms that stick out, surrounded by sand, in landscape at dawn.”

From Seattle Times