lensing

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The focusing of light as if it were passing through a lens.

   The lensing produced by the foreground galaxy magnified the faint object behind it.

   Subtle lensing in the survey data revealed mass that no telescope could see directly.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of lens.

   The director is lensing her new feature on location in Iceland.

   Independent producers often handle the lensing themselves to keep costs down.

   Note

   The -ing form of a verb with two unrelated jobs. One is transitive "to film or shoot" (lensing a feature on location), and the other is "to become thinner toward the edges." As a gerund of the camera meaning, it shades into the film-shoot noun. The difference is grammar: the verb form takes a direct object, while the noun takes an article and a plural, lensings.

3. 3
   nounslanguncountable

   The process of shooting a film; the actual capture of its footage on camera.

   Principal lensing began once the entire cast had assembled on set.

   Most of the lensing happened at night to take advantage of the empty streets.

   Similarfilming, shooting, photography

   Note

   Show-business slang from the trade press. Variety's Film Reviews: 1983-1984 (1985) has Bob Clark taking over a picture "after two weeks of lensing." The word is often measured in time, as in days or weeks of lensing, and it suits industry reporting rather than formal prose. Keep it apart from the optics meaning: there a lens bends light, and here a camera simply rolls.

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