Chapter 1
Appreciating Standard Zoom Lenses
IN THIS CHAPTER
Taking stock of zoom lenses
Shooting wide angles
Enjoying mid-range, normal focal lengths
Zooming in for telephoto shots and close-ups
Standard zoom lenses are very popular lenses — and for good reason… They are incredibly versatile. You can shoot anything from wide-angle landscapes to telephoto portraits simply by twisting the zoom ring. As I show you in this chapter, there's not a lot you can't do with these zoom lenses!
Relatively inexpensive standard zoom lenses are often bundled with popular consumer-level camera bodies and sold as kits. As a result, these lenses are often called kit lenses. Standard zoom lenses are not just for cost-conscious photographers, though. Even professional photographers use zoom lenses, except theirs cost $1,000 to $2,500 instead of $250.
Embodying Versatility
Standard zoom lenses, also known as a multipurpose zoom, zoom, normal zoom, or general-purpose zoom, are designed to be versatile enough to be useful in a wide variety of circumstances. The name sort of gives that away.
Other types ...
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