The most important thing in photography is lenses.Actually lenses are worth than the cameras.Without the right lens it won't matter even if you have a camera worth 10000 bucks.Actually most professional photographers carry a lot of lenses with them.They change the lens according to the scene.But as hobbyists we just need one or few lenses.Let's review them briefly.
2.Prime lenses
3.Zoom lenses
4.Telephoto lens
5.Wide angel lenses
6.Fish eye lenses
Camera Lenses
There are many types of camera lens.We use them for different purposes.One type can be used for several things.What are these lens types?
1.Macro lenses2.Prime lenses
3.Zoom lenses
4.Telephoto lens
5.Wide angel lenses
6.Fish eye lenses
1.Macro lenses
Macro lenses are used to do macro photography.Which is used to take photos of small subjects.The subject will be big in the photo.For an example if you take a photo of an ant with this type of lens you can focus on the ant and it will be the main subject of your photo(Close Up Photos).Actually magnification is used in these lenses.
2.Prime lenses
Every lens has a focal length.Some lenses only have a fixed focal length.They are the Prime lenses.You cannot zoom with these lenses.But these lenses are lighter and small.They will bring you amazing photo quality.But they are less versatile than zoom lenses.These are also called FFL lenses (Fixed Focal Length)
3.Zoom lenses
You can take pictures from a distant with these lenses.But the photo quality will be poor.You cannot get a nice photo like in FFL lenses.A special lens system is used in these lenses.You can vary the focal length in these lenses.The ratio of the zoom lens' longest and shortest focal length is used to calculate the maximum zoom.If you have a zoom lens with a 18mm-300mm focal length then the maximum zoom will be 300/18 = 16.67.
4.Telephoto lenses
In zoom lenses, if you get a 300mm zoom lens the lens will be 30cm (300mm) long.So this is a little bit difficult when moving with the camera.You can imagine how it would be when focal lengths like 500mm.So the telephoto lenses come to the field.The telephoto lens have longer focal length than their real physical length.So its easy to work with the camera.Unlike zoom lenses telephoto lenses will provide extreme focal lengths.But you can only change focal length in some telephoto lenses.
5.Wide Angle lens
Wide angle lenses only have a short focal length for up to about 55mm.But as their name they cover a large area.Wide angle lenses have a very large depth of field.Mostly used in capturing landscapes.There are telephoto wide angle lenses which have a variable focal length for up to about 120mm.
6.Fish eye lenses
These lenses have extreme depth of fields like 180 degrees.They produce a big distortion in photos.Its like you look through a fish eye.They have a very little focal length.Like 5mm.Main purpose is to get the fish eye effect.
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