How to choose the best lens for your style of photography.
One of the main benefits of owning a digital SLR is the freedom it gives you to swap lenses to suit the scene you’re shooting.
There are two main reasons for buying a DSLR. Better image quality and the freedom it gives you to chop and change lenses to alter your perspective .
Most DSLRs ship with a couple of zoom lenses – generally covering a zoom range of around 18 to 300mm all up. These lenses are great when you’re starting out, but they’re made to a price and they’re at the bottom of the ladder in terms of optical quality.
Better lenses let in more light and produce sharper images with more detail and fewer distortions. The bottom line is, if you’re serious about photography you need to get yourself some good lenses. Before you do, here are a few things you need to know.
FOCAL LENGTH
In simple terms a lens with a focal length less than 35mm is wide, around 50mm is normal, and above 70mm is telephoto. That’s true for cameras with full-frame (36 x 24mm) sensors anyway – cameras like the Canon EOS 5D, Nikon D700 and Sony A850...