Have you ever wondered why some photographs are in focus and others are not? You really thought that you focused your picture properly through the camera lens but the result turned out blurry or out of focus. Maybe you were shooting a picture from a distance and tried to capture the subject somewhere in the middle of the photograph at a sporting event. You thought that through the eye of the photography lens that it all looked great but the camera lens did something else. Yes folks, I have been there all too many times and still make mistakes using my photography lenses improperly.

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Photography Lenses Guide

Ernst Wildi’s book explains appropriate amount information on photographic lenses for the casual hobbyist to the serious camera buff. The book has many great explanations of various lenses and the characteristics of each. Wildi exhibits his mastery of photographic equipment in this book, Photographic Lenses: A photographer’s guide to characteristics, quality, use and design. There really is nothing overlooked in this super book. The author, Wildi communicates lens characteristics, understanding advertising claims, lenses for film and digital photography, lens specifications, focal lengths and zoom lenses. The context is clear enough for beginners in understanding photography lenses and comprehensive enough, for advanced shutterbugs and pros to learn something new. You will be impressed with this new volume from Wildi. He starts out in his first chapter explaining lens characteristics and the claims being made about lenses and how to sift through the information. The reader will be hooked from beginning to end and improve their knowledge of camera lenses. This will be a great addition to everyone’s Photographic Lenses library. You can get your copy of this book by clicking here. Let us know what you think by commenting on your experienced with books on Photographic Lenses.

Ernst Wildi is the author of Achieving the Ultimate Image and Composition Techniques from a Master Photographer. He lives in Wachtung, New Jersey.

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As promised, today we bring you part 2 with some more information in understanding photography lenses. This video from Rob Barron takes you further into discussions around the photography camera lenses. This short video will show you more about other camera lenses such as the macro lens that works well in very close up photography.

If you enjoy this video on lenses for photography then rate it a +5 for Rob.

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Today we bring you some basics in understanding photography lenses. With just a few lenses anybody can get started taking beautiful pictures. We start by providing a video from Rob Barron who discusses in part 1 basic information regarding length, aperture, lighting, and how the lens size affects your picture. In part 1 Rob discusses photography camera lenses in very simple terms and shows you these camera lenses and the picture outcomes.

Look for part 2 of Rob’s basics in Photography Lenses in a coming post.

Thanks Rob, enjoy…

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Welcome to the art of the photography lenses and the components that add to the wonderful world of photography as you the artist, see it through the camera lens. For all of you photo buffs that share the excitement and enthusiasm that I have viewing that prize picture you just captured, you are going to enjoy the information presented in this blog about Photography Lenses.

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