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The document discusses various types of camera lenses including telephoto, wide-angle, macro, and fish-eye lenses, highlighting their characteristics and typical uses. Telephoto lenses magnify distant subjects, making them ideal for sports and wildlife photography, while wide-angle lenses capture expansive scenes, suitable for landscapes and architecture. Macro lenses allow for close-up photography, and fish-eye lenses create a distorted perspective, offering unique artistic effects.

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Lens Type

The document discusses various types of camera lenses including telephoto, wide-angle, macro, and fish-eye lenses, highlighting their characteristics and typical uses. Telephoto lenses magnify distant subjects, making them ideal for sports and wildlife photography, while wide-angle lenses capture expansive scenes, suitable for landscapes and architecture. Macro lenses allow for close-up photography, and fish-eye lenses create a distorted perspective, offering unique artistic effects.

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Camera Lens Types

Most digital cameras have a fixed zoom camera lens that cannot be removed or replaced. One advantage is that
the camera is sealed so no dust can get on the image sensor. On the other hank, digital SLR cameras have
removable lenses so you can change them as circumstances dictate.

Telephoto Lens
A telephoto lens is a lens with a long focal length that magnifies the subject. You can find this type of lenses
called a telephoto, long focal length, long lens and zoom in but they all refer to the same thing - a lens that
brings distant subjects closer. This is especially useful when you cannot get close to your subject— or you
prefer not to.

Because of this property telephoto lenses are ideal for sports photography as it allows the photographer to shoot
subjects that are at great distances. It is also typically used in wildlife photography, as getting close to a subject
might disturb it. The long focal length of the telephoto lens lets you keep your distance and still fill the
viewfinder frame with the subject.

Telephoto lenses are also used by photographers who want greater control over limiting the depth of field (the
area of an image in focus), typically in portrait photography.
When using larger aperture settings , combined with the long focal lengths of telephoto lenses, limits the depth
of field to a small area (either the foreground, middle, or background of the image).

The primary drawback of a long lens is that most (but not all) such lenses have a smaller maximum aperture.
This may force you to use a slower shutter speed and hence would require a tripod.

Wide-Angle Lens

A wide-angle lens is a lens with a short focal length that takes in a wide view. This type of lenses can be called
wide-angle, short focal length; short lens and zoom out but refer to the same thing - lenses that capture a wide
expanse of a scene.

Wide-angle lenses are typically used when the subject is in the extreme foreground and the photographer wants
the background in focus as well. This property can be used to create a dramatic effect and change the
perspective in your images as objects very close to the camera loom much larger than those farther in the
background.

Wide-angle lenses are thus ideal for photographing buildings, landscapes, interiors, and street photography.

The following table provides a overview of what focal lengths are required to be considered a wide angle or
telephoto lens, in addition to their typical uses.
Marco Lens
Marco lenses or lenses with a macro mode are used for close up photography of insects or flowers. They have
similar properties to a normal lens, but they are able to focus a lot closer to the subject. Macro lenses can
produce images at a 1:1 ratio.

The camera lenses with the longer focal lengths come in very handy for taking close ups of subjects that might
otherwise be scared away. The optical quality of a macro lens is normally very high.

Fish-Eye Lens
Fish-eye lenses are at the fringe of wide angle lenses and offer a distorted perspective of the scene so that
objects are magnified in the center and diminish in size and clarity in all directions in proportion to the lens'
shape.

Their angle of view is typically a full 180% but some fisheye lenses produce an even greater field of view (as
much as 220 degrees in some cases). Some would consider the distortion an error, but others would see it as art.

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