Camera Lenses Explained For Beginners - 15 Things You Need To Know

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Camera Lenses Explained For Beginners - 15 Things You Need To Know. Hi and welcome to Episode 57 of the Photography Explained podcast.

I’m Rick, and in each episode I will explain one photographic thing in plain English in less than 10 minutes (ish) without the irrelevant details. What I tell you is based on my lifetime of photographic experience. Not Google. Well there might be the odd thing that I had to look up but mainly this is stuff that I know.

Here is my answer
Here are 15 things that you need to know about camera lenses

1. Why are there so many different lenses?
2. Fixed lenses
3. Zoom lenses
4. Standard lense
5. Wide angle lense
6. Telephoto lense
7. Crop factor
8. Specialist lenses
9. Aperture
10. Depth of field
11. Quality
12.  Cost
13. Re sell value
14. Does every camera have interchangeable lenses?
15. Camera mounts
16. What Do I Use?

(OK - there are 16 things!)

Listen for more, or check out the transcript and even the blog post - so many ways to find out more!

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 If you want to start taking stunning sunrise photos, and why wouldn't you,  check out my Photography for Beginners: Sunrise in Mexico course at rickmcevoyphotography.com/courses.

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