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CHOOSING A LENS FOR YOUR CAMERA

An introduction to and overview of camera lenses
How to buy choose a camera lens Rhode Island Photographer

In a previous post, I wrote all about choosing a camera.  But when you get a camera body, you will also need a lens!  Have you ever stopped and looked at camera lenses?  You see all sorts of funky letters and numbers like Canon 85mm f/1.4.  Or Nikon 18-55 f/3.5-5.6G VR.  It’s all gobbledygook until you understand a few basic things on choosing a lens for your camera.  When it comes to choosing a lens to go with the body of the camera you bought (this only applies to DSLR and Mirrorless because remember that point and shoots have one fixed lens) there are many choices out there.  So.  Many.  So I am going to try and help break it down a bit.  There are more factors that go into purchasing one but I want to keep this on a pretty basic level!  You can always email me if you have more specific questions.  And as I said in my previous post, I am a professional photographer, I am not a professional camera retailer so I will make some errors somewhere along the way, I am sure!  

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