- Telephoto lens can be up to 800mm or more.
- Fish-eye lens gives a 180 degree field of view.
- Different lenses range from zooms, primes, macro, super telephoto, and tilt-shift lenses.
- Expensive lenses have a fixed aperture.
- Wide lenses are good for landscape photos, a wide lens could be around 14mm.
- Standard lenses range from 35mm-85mm.
- Standard lenses are good for landscape pictures or portrait because you can zoom in or zoom out.
- Prime standard lenses are lenses that cannot zoom in or out.
- Telephoto zooms are good if you can’t get close to your subject.
- You shouldn’t get lazy and let your lens do all the work for you.
- Telephoto lenses compress distance so everything can look closer.
- Wide angels distort perspective and make everything seem far away.
- Telephoto lenses are great for sports, nature, and wildlife, where it is hard to get close.
- Faster telephoto lenses have larger maximum apertures.
- A “fast” lens is usually one that has an aperture of f/4, f/2.8 or larger.
- If sports is your primary subjects, a telephoto zoom such as a 70-200 f/2.8 is recommended.
- To shoot like the “pros”, 300mm f/4, or 300mm f/2.8 or 400mm f/2.8 are recommended because it can bring you closer to the action.
- If the shutter speed is too slow it will create motion blur.
- Using longer lenses makes it harder to track movement.
- It’s easier to get a subject that’s moving towards you rather than a subject that is moving parallel to the camera.