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How can I get to know lenses? |
I love photography but don't know much about lenses, where can I find step by step courses or info.? Well, first, it would help if you started reading a Beginner's book on photography; most good books will have a chapter on different kinds of lenses and explain what they're used for. If, however, you're referring to the particular abbreviations such as "DX" or "ED" that some lenses have, that's a totally different matter; each company uses their own nomenclature for their classification of lenses (which I suspect very much is a trademark they hold with such taxonomy). You'd have to go to the particular brand name site on the Internet and read up on that company's own individual terminology for lenses. That's part of the jargon that is commonly used by photographers and those in the photography business (writers, promoters, technicians, salesperons, etc); that's why I always urge beginners to read old black and white books on photography so they can familiarize themselves with the terms (jargon) used so that they can understand more of what they read and hear, and make their learning experience easier. This link may be helpful... http://photo.net/learn/making-photograph... Books and good Internet links are great, but to really learn what certain lenses will do is to shoot with them. If you like landscapes, buy the widest angle lens you can afford (20mm is too cool). For a normal lens (if you don't buy a zoom) if you get a 55mm macro lens you will have a dual purpose lens. Okay so now how do you learn about each lens? I used to go out shooting and only take one lens. I would shoot two whole rolls using that lens only and then study the photos to get a good feel for what that lens actually will do under varying conditions. For portrait shooting an 85 or 105mm is good and if you shoot sports or wildlife the 200 to 500mm range is best. Editorial, sports and glamour photographer I don't know what equipment you own, but here are some links to Ken Rockwell's pages on choosing lenses: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/nikkor.... http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/... If you want to spend a few days exploring Rockwell's site, you will find probably a hundred reviews of various individual lenses. |
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