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The linear induction, Faraday flashlight, or "shake flashlight" is another type of mechanically powered flashlight. It has been sold in the US beginning with direct marketing campaigns in 2002. This design contains a linear electrical generator which charges a supercapacitor which functions similarly to a rechargeable battery when the ...
A solar flashlight with built-in radio. Solar powered flashlights (American English) or solar powered torches (British English) are flashlights powered by solar energy stored in rechargeable batteries. Most of these flashlights use light-emitting diodes lamps [1] [2] since they have lower energy consumption compared to incandescent light bulbs. [3]
A set of modern LED flashlights. A flashlight or electric torch (Commonwealth English), usually shortened to torch, is a portable hand-held electric lamp.Formerly, the light source typically was a miniature incandescent light bulb, but these have been displaced by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) since the early 2000s.
In the field of photography, a manual focus camera is one in which the user has to adjust the focus of the lens by hand. Before the advent of autofocus, all cameras had manually adjusted focusing; thus, the term is a retronym. The focus itself may be adjusted in a variety of ways.
In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is a point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. [1] Although the focus is conceptually a point, physically the focus has a spatial extent, called the blur circle. This non-ideal focusing may be caused by aberrations of the imaging optics.
ATS officers-in-training crew a 90 cm searchlight in Western Command, 1944. A searchlight (or spotlight) is an apparatus that combines an extremely bright source (traditionally a carbon arc lamp) with a mirrored parabolic reflector to project a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direction.
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide: Wizards RPG Team, Green Ronin [15] November 3, 2015: Describes the Sword Coast region of Faerûn. 159: 978-0-7869-6580-9: Forgotten Realms Player's Guide ― November 11, 2025: Adds new subclasses and backgrounds for characters in the Forgotten Realms. Describes factions that characters can join or oppose. [16 ...