Diopter, dioptre

A unit of measurement of the magnifying power of a lens.

Auxiliary close-up lenses, which are fitted to the front of normal camera lenses to increase magnification, are sometimes called dioptres.

The adjustment built into some camera viewfinders to compensate for a photographer's long or short-sightedness (above) is often called a dioptre adjustment or just dioptre.

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