Tips for Choosing The Right Digital Camera Lens

By Ryanita

Digital Camera Lenses

Selecting the right lens is critical when purchasing a digital camera. Basically, lenses can be categorized this way: fixed focal length, retractable zoom, fixed zoom and interchangeable lenses.

Fixed focal length lenses are the cheapest and simplest to use. Fixed focal length lenses can’t zoom in distant objects and they don’t accept converters. This type of lens is reasonably priced and takes decent pictures. A retractable zoom lens gives you a very compact digital camera style while fully protecting the lens. Retractable zoom lenses do not support filters or converters and slightly delay the start-up time of the digital camera. A fixed zoom lens will accept converters, filters and flash rings. A fixed zoom lens allows a magnification of up to 12x. Fixed zoom lenses offer advanced and precise zoom and manual focus controls through rings on the lens instead of buttons. If you already own lenses for a traditional film camera, you can usually find a digital camera with a compatible SLR body. A digital SLR is the most flexible lens for all shooting situations. Of course, the lenses can be quite expensive.

Choose the Right Lens for Portraits

If you want your subjects to be pleased with the results of your work, then make sure you get a lens fit for the job. And that means, one with the correct focal length.

Lenses with a focal length less than 80mm are no good. The ideal portrait lens has a focal length in the range 90mm to 135mm. Don’t forget your sensor size when determining the equivalent focal length. This means you have to factor in a multiplier to get the correct lens focal length. A film lens of 50mm would work out 80mm on a digital sensor with a 1.6 multiplier factor. Refer to your camera handbook for information on magnification factors for sensors.

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Through the Lens – An Explanation of Camera Lenses

Lenses can be confusing at first. There are many types of camera lenses available. They are used with DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras which have interchangeable lenses.

Standard lenses are usually included with your camera. The standard lens with most cameras is either a 50mm lens or a 28-80mm lens. The mm measurement is the focal length of the lens. Standard lenses are good for general photography, and they have great zoom capabilities, but wont push your camera to its limit.

Telephoto lenses are great for zooming in on your subject from far away.

Wide angle lenses are basically the opposite of telephoto lenses.

Fisheye lenses are fun to work with and can get you some interesting shots. A fisheye lens does look surprisingly like a fish eye.

Macro Lenses are great for taking ultra close-up shots. Whatever lens you buy, remember that quality does matter. Buying one high quality lens, is better than buy 2 mediocre lenses.

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