Buying a new lens can be one of the most difficult choices you make as a photographer. How do you know which lenses are a good buy if you can’t try them out beforehand? Why do some Canon lenses cost so much and others so little? Should you buy a zoom lens or a prime? Is that superzoom a good a deal as it seems?
There are so many questions that it’s easy to get confused. That’s why I wrote Understanding Lenses: Part I – A guide to Canon wide-angle & kit lenses. Roughly half the eBook is dedicated to exploring Canon’s range of wide-angle and kit lenses. This section explains the differences between Canon’s lenses and gives you the information you require to decide which lens (or lenses) to buy.
The other half is dedicated to helping you get the best out of your kit and wide-angle lenses. Photography is a creative endeavour, and lenses are the ‘eyes’ of your camera system. Once you understand how lenses ‘see’ you can harness their creative potential to create eye-catching and dramatic images.
What you will learn
- How the choice of lens and focal length affect the aesthetics of your images.
- Why you don’t have to spend a fortune on new lenses to get good image quality.
- The history of EOS lenses and the EF, EF-S and EF-M mounts.
- Why your kit lens is a better lens than you may think.
- How to explore the creative potential of kit and wide-angle lenses.
- What ‘gear envy’ is and why you don’t need the most expensive lenses to make good photos.
- The relationship between field-of-view and crop factor.
- The key differences between zoom lenses and primes.
- What sets an L series lens apart from the others and are they worth the extra money?
- How to decide which lens to buy, and where you can find the information you need to make a purchasing decision.
- How to use your wide-angle and kit lenses to take amazing photos of people, buildings and the landscape.
- What causes flare and how to avoid it.
- How to use the free software that comes with your camera to counter the effects of chromatic aberrations, vignetting and barrel distortion.
- How to test your lenses to find the sharpest apertures to work at.
- Updated to include the latest Canon lenses.
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Note: Understanding Lenses Part I is written specifically for the owners of Canon EOS digital SLRS.
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Understanding Lenses Part I
Title: Understanding Lenses Part I: A guide to Canon wide-angle & kit lenses
Length: 79 double page spreads
Words: approx 21,000
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Format: PDF. You can view Understanding Lenses Part I using free Adobe reader software on any PC. You can also read Understanding Lenses on the iPad using iBooks – the eBook has been optimised for iPad viewing.
- A brief history of EOS lenses
- An introduction to kit lenses
- Inside a kit lens
- Canon kit lenses
- Using kit lenses
- Wide-angle lenses
- Field-of-view and crop factor
- Using wide-angle lenses
- Buying guide: wide-angle lenses
- Notable Canon wide-angle lenses
- Lens corrections
- Lens corrections in Lightroom & DPP
- Lens testing