Lenses

This fully revised and updated guide starts with the fundamentals of lens mount and format options, image stabilisation and focusing systems, image sensor sizes and their impact on lens performance. Lenses gives shooting tips to improve your picture-taking and advises the most suitable lenses for different types of photography including landscape, portraiture, sport, wildlife, and macro. This handy guide covers:- Standard lenses, wide angle, prime, telephoto and super-telephoto lenses.- Popular telephoto ranges, extended-range zoom lenses and teleconverters.- Specific lens effects including bokeh, rectilinear distortion, perspective compression.- How to put together the right lens kit for your photography - gap, adjoin, or overlap your lens focal length ranges.- How lens choice affects image composition.- Special purpose lenses - macro, architectural, mirror and fisheye lenses.- The best ways to care for your lenses.- Lens accessories - hoods, filters, adapters, ring lights, and downloadable apps.Lenses shows you how the right camera lenses will give you better quality, eye-catching images.