Muscles in the eye surrounding the lens contract stretching it out, flattening it; or relax, letting it thicken. These changes in shape refocus the lens.
The lens of the eye also called the crystalline lens.
the lens
The pinhole camera has no lens. The human eye has a variable-focus lens.
When you focus on nearby objects, the lens of your eye becomes thicker. This adjustment is necessary to bring the image of the object into clear focus on the retina, which is located at the back of the eye.
The lens in a cows eye is flexible and clear. The flexible lens is able to change shape which allows it to better focus on objects.
The eye lens is convex in shape, which allows it to focus light onto the retina at the back of the eye, enabling clear vision.
Both the cornea (hard outer tissue) and the lens (farther inside) curve light rays that fall on the outer eye and direct them toward the retina. The lens is adjusted by muscles in the eye, while the cornea has a fixed focus.
Light is refracted when it passes through the lens in a normal eye by bending or changing direction to focus the incoming light onto the retina at the back of the eye. The lens in the eye changes its shape to adjust the focus, allowing the eye to properly see objects at different distances.
The lens in the human eye is a convex lens, but it is flexible and when it is acted on by the ciliary muscle around it, the lens can be "flattened" to change the focus, or, when the muscle is relaxed, the lens can assume a more spherical shape. This is at the heart of the ability of the eye to focus on objects nearer or farther away.
This elasticity allows the lens to focus on both near and far objects.
the corena
The lens in the eye does not have nerve cells, so it does not feel any sensation. It is a transparent structure that helps to focus light onto the retina at the back of the eye.