Camera Lenses

Camera Lenses

A lens on a camera may be fixed or attached. Here is an example of some different lens lengths and the result that they produce. What do you think the advantages are of using different lens lengths?

28mm Lens  -

 

50mm Lens -

70mm Lens -

210mm Lens -

Below are some types of photographic lenses. Research what they do and why you would use them.

Wide-angle	Making the objects closer to the lens to look bigger.
Long	Shows the entire shots including the surrounding of the main object.
Telephoto	Specific type of a long focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length
Macro	Close up photography usually of very small objects classically a macrophotography is one in which the size of the subject on the negative is greater than life size.
Attachments	A lens that you can attach to the original lens.

Using your knowledge of lenses, what type of lenses do you think have been used to take the following photographs and why?

Telephoto – the leopard looks shorter to the lens than it would appear in actual life, this is the effect the telephoto has.

Wide Angle – the little boys face is closest to the camera that makes it look bigger and goes smaller towards the bottom of his body.

 

Macro – image of a strawberry has been zoomed up on to, so you are able to see more detail of the fruit.

 

Long – shows a lot of the surroundings as well as the main object in the shot, which is of the huts.