Lens’s craft

 Lens Craft - Types of Lenses

• There are several main types of lenses used in photography and cinematography:
• Prime Lenses: These have a fixed focal length, meaning they can't zoom in or out. They are k for their sharpness, clarity, and wide aperture capabilities, making them excellent for low light situations and achieving a shallow depth of field.
• Zoom Lenses: Unlike primes, zoom lenses have a variable focal length, allowing you to zoom and out. They offer versatility and convenience, making them popular for various shooting scenarios.
• Wide-angle Lenses: These have a shorter focal length, capturing a wider field of view. They're great for capturing expansive landscapes, architecture, and scenes in tight spaces.

Lens Craft - Types of Lenses

• Standard or Normal Lenses: With a focal length similar to the diagonal size of the image sensor or film, these lenses offer a perspective close to what the human eye sees. They're versatile for many types of photography.
• Telephoto Lenses: These have a longer focal length, allowing you to capture distant subjects up close. They're ideal for wildlife, sports, and portrait photography.
• Macro Lenses: Designed for extreme close-up photography, these lenses enable you to capture intricate details of small subjects like insects, flowers, or textures.
• Fisheye Lenses: These ultra-wide-angle lenses create a highly distorted, spherical perspective.
  They re often used for artistic and experimental photography

• Tit-Shift Lenses: Primarily used in architectural photography, these lenses allow you to control the perspective distortion that occurs when shooting tall buildings.

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• lens Adapters and Converters: These aren't technically lenses, but they allow you to use lenses with different mounts or change their characteristics, such as converting a prime lens into a macro

• • Each type of lens serves specific purposes, and understanding their characteristics can greatly enhance the creative possibilities in photography and cinematography.

• Anamorphic Lenses: These specialised lenses create a unique widescreen aspect ratio with distinctive bokeh and flares, popular in cinematic filmmaking.

Shallow Depth of Field: In a shallow depth of field

Image, the subject is in sharp focus, while the background and foreground is blurred. This effect draws attention to the subject, creating a pleasing separation between the subject and the surroundings. This is often achieved with a wide aperture (e.g. 1/1.8 or f/2.8) and is ideal for isolating the subject from distractions.

Deep Depth of Field: Conversely, in a landscape photo with a deep depth of field, both the foreground and background are in sharp focus. This is achieved by using a smaller aperture (e.g., f/11 or (/16) and is essential for capturing intricate details across a wide scene, such as mountains, trees, and other elements, all clearly defined.

 in this session i have learnt in more detail what types of lenses there are and what to use them for, i have had alot of previous experience using lenses but this session was still helpful as it has refreshed my memory and filled any gaps i might have had