| In order to improve the quality of the | | | | into a picture or photo with a normal zoom lens. |
| photographs that you take with DSLR cameras, | | | | With wide-angle zoom lenses it is important that |
| it's useful to understand the differences between | | | | you keep the background simple in order to |
| the types of lenses that you can use to produce | | | | produce some great photographs. |
| various effects. After all, the ability to change | | | | Macro Lenses |
| lenses is one of the core features which | | | | Macro lenses enable you to get up close and |
| differentiates digital SLR cameras from compact | | | | personal with the object of your focus because |
| digital cameras. | | | | they are designed to focus at much closer |
| Normal Zoom Lenses | | | | distances than other lenses. They are great for |
| Don't be misled by the term "normal" because | | | | capturing fine details and are often used in nature |
| these lenses can actually cover quite wide angles | | | | photography to capture small insects or details of |
| of view when they are zoomed out to the | | | | flowers. |
| maximum wide angle range of their capacity. | | | | Fisheye Lenses |
| Their use can also be extended to cover medium | | | | Good for providing a unique dome-like effect at |
| telephoto aspects and they are great for shooting | | | | the edge of photographs, fisheye lenses produce |
| casual shots of familiar things such as landscapes | | | | very wide angles of view with unique renderings |
| and groups.Being relatively lightweight and | | | | that heavily distort straight lines. |
| compact they are fairly compact, making them | | | | Tilt-shift Lenses |
| great to carry around to capture everyday | | | | If you want to maintain your perspective in a |
| events and take great vacation photos. | | | | photograph, tilt-shift lenses are very specialised |
| Telephoto Zoom Lenses | | | | lenses that enable the perspective between the |
| A good example of uses for telephoto lenses is if | | | | lens and the sensor to be adjusted through tilting |
| you are at sporting events such as football | | | | and shifting. The tilt movement is able to focus on |
| games and want to capture the action of the | | | | both near and far points with depth or |
| pitch when you can't get close. Telephoto lenses | | | | concentrate the focus or just a single point in a |
| have a narrower angle of view than normal zoom | | | | picture. The shift movement works by correcting |
| lenses, which is also good for cutting out the | | | | the oblique distortion which is usually seen in |
| background from a picture.They are mainly | | | | photographs in which you are looking up at an |
| considered to be good for portrait photography | | | | object such as a building. Parallel lines are kept |
| because they provide the ability to separate a | | | | parallel instead of the usual oblique effect in which |
| subject from its background by defocussing the | | | | the object of focus would appear to be more |
| background. | | | | narrow towards the top of the shot. |
| Wide-angle Zoom Lenses | | | | So there you have a breakdown of the different |
| These are great for landscape shots or in tight | | | | types of lenses you can use in order to get to |
| spaces which don't allow alot of space to move | | | | grips with developing your skills at digital |
| back from the object of focus, wide-angle lenses | | | | photography using digital SLR cameras. |
| enable you to capture objects that wouldn't fit | | | | |