Besides the image quality, using a prime lens simply means a much lighter, more compact lens.Pancake lensesare the most extreme example of this, where a lens is shorter than it is wide. This makes primes a great choice for lightweight mirrorless systems. Of course, primes aren’t always l...
Right now, social media is flooded with mediocre and subpar street photography. Just pointing your lens in the direction of a person on the street does not qualify as street photography. As in all photography, how you compose your image will make or break your photograph. X-T3 + XF56mm f...
even likely, that you will jump to full frame at some point in the future (assuming you shoot with Nikon, Canon, or Sony which offer full frame cameras). So, I recommend that any upgrade to your kit lenses should be a full frame lens. It is true that all manufacturers have some pro...
Each camera brand has a unique RAW format. The file extension on a Nikon RAW file (.NEF) will be different from a Canon RAW file (.CR3), for example. But Adobe created an open-source digital negative format called DNG. A DNG is a RAW photo file but,...
Focus breathing refers to when a lens’s focal length changes subtly (or noticeably) as the focusing distance changes. Both zoom and prime lenses exhibit this behavior to varying degrees. One way to see this for yourself is to frame a scene and then change your lens’s focus from minimum ...
Crop Sensor:Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM Lens. Nikon Full Frame:Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED Zoom Lens. Crop Sensor:Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED Zoom Lens. Wide-angle lenses are great in lots of situations, from landscape to street photogr...
frame of the film or sensor, which the photographer uses to compose the shot, and it has a rangefinder window a few inches beside it. The rangefinder window projects a separate image onto the viewfinder image, and when these two images line up, the lens is perfectly focused on the subject...
When I am shooting an evening or indoor event, I am taking a big FF prime, or a much smaller (big) M43 prime to do the job. There is just no way to get a F2.8 lens to track well in low light, especially for video clips. I have the 17, the 45 and two copies of the 25....
So, we’ve briefly touched upon what a prime lens is. Below, you’ll find our five favorite picks that you should consider for your first. 1. 50mm The 50mm lens gets a lot of praise in the photography community, and for a good reason. It’s good at pretty much everything—hence ...
After graduating from a kit lens, you’ll need to decide between a prime lens and a zoom lens. But what exactly is the difference? Which one is better for you?