Types of Lenses And Usefulness

As you may often hear on television lately; is the power of an SLR camera lens. There are many types of lenses in the world of photography with the uses, advantages, and disadvantages of each. For you who may not quite understand, the following list:

Fisheye: There is no specific benefit, except a fish eye effect. See also more specific explanation in this article.

Ultra-wide rectilinear, wider than 19mm: Usually for photographing the interior, with limited space but it takes a holistic view in a room.

Ultra-wide-angle (19, 20, 21, or 24mm): One of the four or five essential lens for professional, very useful for artists and beginners who are already familiar with basic photography. Used for landscape, interiors, street photography, photos masses, and so on. Very few people use this size lens for everyday photography.

Ultra-wide-angle zoom (wide-end 20mm or wider): Useful if a photographer want to carry a heavy lens instead of the three that is milder, or those who like the flare effect. Sometimes paired with a 80-200mm zoom lens as two important professional lenses.

Wide angle: Now the size of a 24mm lens is often replaced by a 20mm and a 35mm lens has a focal length that is considered normal, so that between them, the idea of ​​a fixed focal length is 28mm. Useful for shooting anything (especially for street photography, art, photojournalism, and portraits environment) where the width of the display is required.

Shift: To take pictures of the building. Fixing the curve in the line caused by a matter of perspective.

Tilt shift: the same as lens shift, it is usually used for a miniature effect, also for photographing landscape with foreground portion of the lot.

Zoom 28-200mm for all purposes: rarely used because of its focal range is too wide so it can not produce good quality photos.

Normal fixed lens (35mm equivalent): This is the easiest focal length used to take pictures, but it is often replaced by a zoom lens. Often used for street photography.

Normal / standard (50mm): Useful for shooting close range. Good to learn discipline for those who are used to using a zoom lens. If it is used by those who are experts, can produce a similar picture as well wide angle telephoto.

Macro / Micro: For photographing flowers, insects, eyeballs, eyelashes, small items, cobwebs are decorated with dew, and the like. The lens is a very popular hobby, because macro photographer is one of the most enthusiastic kind of photographer who often photograph things fun.

Normal super fast (f / 2, f / 1.2): Used by those who love the depth of field is very limited. Usually to make a portrait, also for those who love bokeh.

Standard zoom (35-70mm, 28-105mm, 35-135mm, etc.): Used for shooting under bright light - usually snapshots, scenery, cars, travel photos, photographs and images that burst underexposedm due to the flash of the camera. Useful for photographs that are very common.

135mm fixed lens: Rarely used or owned. Generally only a standard 35mm lens when used on rangefinder cameras.

Zoom medium fast: For professionals, this is a daily lens. For beginners, it is rarely used. Very expensive, large, and heavy but the quality is equivalent fixed lens cheaper.

Short telephoto (75, 77, 80, 85, 90, 100, or 105mm): For a portrait, landscape tight, face photo, beauty and fashion. Typically the kit lens that came with camera body also dalah standard zoom like this.

Lens 180mm or 200mm fixed slow: Lightweight and easy to carry.

Standard telephoto zoom (70 or 80 or 180, 200, or 210): Whether it's sooner or underlayer, this lens is fine for most photographers, pros and beginners. Used for all types of actions, events, fashion, portrait, face photo, reportage, sports, wildlife, landscape and nature. Could cover the telephoto range needed most photographers - at least until they became interested in photographing birds.

300mm fast: For fashion, catalogs, fashion shows, sports, nature, performing aircraft. The lens is important for professionals, as well as for the nature photographer. Somewhat difficult to use by beginners except for photographing insects.

400mm: Insects, sports, and birds. Also for photographing a football match with a focus on individual players.

500mm: Insects and birds.

600mm: Insects.