Lens

Standard A standard lens is one that has a field of view similar to that of the human eye which is about 50 degrees this is a good all round lens as it photographs almost exactly what you see and how you see it, it is a good walk about lens and is the best lens to buy if you can only have 1 lens, it can be a fixed focal length lens of about 30/35mm, or it could be a short zoom with a range of about 17/50mm.

FISHEYE A fish eye lens has a very short focal length, which means it has a very wide field of view, usually around 180 degrees, because of its wide field of view it is useful for getting a lot in the picture where space is limited, 1 problem with fish eyes is the distortion and verticals can sometimes appear as curves. One occupation that uses fish eye or ultra wide lenses are estate agents to help them to show insides of rooms when producing a brochure to sell a house.

MACRO A macro lens is a special lens that is used to take close up photo’s of subjects such as insects, flowers and small items such as watch parts ,coins or stamps, true macro lenses have the ability to produce photographs that are life size or even bigger.