Digital Camera Lenses




Looking for digital camera lenses? If you want to progress from weekend amateur photographer to a professional photographer, you would want to know everything about camera lens types.


Many professional photographers choose a particular lens to get a particular photographic effect.

Subject, composition as well as the light is always a major influencing agent, which makes professional photographers pick one particular lens over another.

Below we discuss the different camera lens types.

Are you after certain branded digital camera lenses?
Then check out the following review pages:

Canon Camera Lens Reviews Part 1
Canon Camera Lens Reviews Part 2

Nikon Camera Lens Reviews Part 1
Nikon Camera Lens Reviews Part 2

Olympus Camera Lens Reviews Part 1
Olympus Camera Lens Reviews Part 2

Digital camera Lens #1 -- Digital Camera Wide Angle Lens


A digital camera wide angle lens is normally used by photographers who keep on looking for landscape shots especially using telephoto lenses. Not only do they get wider vision fields, but also the expansive topographical and geographical displays in front of their camera can easily fit in, in one wide-angle snap. Not only can you focus upon the background, but you are also going to get the whole foreground in the picture.

These sorts of lenses are normally used for dramatic and dynamic scenery and landscapes, when the visual impact of both the background as well as the foreground is all. Nevertheless, if you are focusing on just one particular object in that huge expanse of barren land, a wide-angle lens is definitely not going to do for you.


Digital camera Lens #2 -- Camera Zoom Lens


Digital Camera Lenses A camera zoom lens is normally used to either widen or shorten focal lengths of the lenses for the final magnification of pictures being shot. That is the reason why many photographers preferred this type of lens, especially for portraiture, and landscape photography. Nevertheless, because of the presence of lens openings, you need plenty of light to get a seriously good picture using the zoom lens.

That is the reason why it works best in a studio with plenty of lights. Thanks to digital cameras making their appearance upon the photographic scene, zoom lenses have come onto their own.


Digital camera Lens #3 -- Fixed Focal Length


Fixed focal lengths are on their way out. So remember that digital zoom lenses and optical zoom lenses are completely different. The moment your digital zoom reaches the state of maximum zoom, it is going to clip the image drastically. On the other hand, optical zoom lenses magnify all the images to the required amount of magnification.

Digital enlargements thus have an image of lower picture quality, because it is seen through a viewfinder. That is the reason why the subject is not magnified. So if you want to go in for zoom, going for optical zoom is the best option.





Digital camera Lens #4 -- Telephoto Digital Camera Lens


Telephoto digital camera lenses- these lenses, as well as zoom lenses have just subtle differences. The image is magnified and enlarged by a zoom lens. Telephoto lenses bring the image supposedly nearer to you, which means that the distance between the lens of the camera and the object is drastically reduced. So the details are going to be shown more clearly.


Digital camera Lens #5 -- Camera Lens with Fixed FL


Camera lenses with fixed FL - The lenses cannot be adjusted. They work best for photos in low light. Beginners would do well to try out their wings on such lenses, because you are going to focus more on the basics of photography to get the best shot. Some digital cameras have zoom lenses that are inbuilt now.


Digital camera Lens #6 -- Macro Lens


Macro Lens - these lenses can be used for microscopic work in greater detail, without any sort of distortion. The object is magnified. For example, you can use macro lenses for photographing dewdrops of flowers or the details of the wings of a butterfly.


I hope this gave you a bit of an idea about digital camera lens types out there.

As you see there are many different types.

Depending on whether you are interested in taking panoramic shots or very detailed photos the camera lens type you need varies.

As you keep on developing your hobby / profession you may find that having just one or two lenses is not enough.

Yep, it is a bit of an expensive hobby, and you are never quite done with getting all your gear together, but it is all worth it when you take that one perfect shot of the day with your new digital camera lens!



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