Project 52

Understanding your Camera Lens

Understanding your Camera Lens

What lenses I need to buy? Is camera kit lens is enough? Do I need all those lenses? This are some questions I heard from some people who wants to enter in photography hobby.

Being one of a senior member in one of Photography Club here in Dubai United Arab Emirates I was assigned in Abu Dhabi to give a lecture about Lenses or Camera Lenses. So I share my knowledge in a simplest way I know.

As I practice my photography skills I give my concentration on events and photojournalism, which in my own opinion requires more skills/knowledge in maximizing the use of camera lenses. Not just having a camera will going to get the best pictures we wanted. Most of us who take photos are amateurs in the art world, but with the right equipment our photography can be elevated to a new height. Lenses are important especially when you settle on a medium you will train in. Most photographers choose one area of photography to specialize in. There are many types of lenses, the standard, telephoto, wide angle, zoom and panoramic lenses.

What is Lens?
 A basic component of a camera that takes the light that enters the camera and focus it on single point to form a sharp image.
 The Most important part of the camera. Lens is like human eye without it you cannot capture/see good images.

Most cameras have a lens, even the point and shoot type. Often when you purchase a camera package or kit they will come with standard kit lens with it. All SLR Camera have interchangeable lenses while all compact and point & shoot camera has lens fixed in the camera body that you cannot change or replace. You do not have to stick with the same brand of lenses as your cameras since a lot of brand is available just make sure that it is fits in your camera body.

What is the Basic Function of the Lens? (continue reading…)

After the press released of the New 120 megapixels Canon APS-H-size CMOS image sensor, here they are Canon make an announcement to exhibit they new telephoto lenses which still under development.

Last August 26, 2010 TOKYO (Japan), Canon Inc. announced that it is developing two new telephoto lenses for use with its EOS lineup of single-lens reflex cameras—the EF500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF600mm f/4L IS II USM—and will display prototypes at the photokina 2010 photography and imaging industry trade fair between September 21 and 26 in Cologne, Germany.

The EF500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF600mm f/4L IS II USM are being developed as L (Luxury)-series lenses equipped with a high-performance image stabilization system.

EF500mm f/4L IS II USM (prototype)

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