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 MINOLTA MC WROKKOR X 12 f28mm made in Japan metal mount very fast wide lens $61.01 (9 Bids) Time Remaining: 10h 7m |
 MINOLTA MC W ROKKOR X 35mm f28 FAST WIDE ANGLE LENS FOR SRT CAMERA MOUNTS $95.48 Time Remaining: 10d 14h 43m Buy It Now for only: $95.48 |
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 Cambo Wide 650 4x5 camera with Schneider 56 f Lens Center filter and Case Pac $2,300.00 Time Remaining: 14h 31m Buy It Now for only: $2,535.00 |
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 Canon AE 1 35mm SLR Film Camera with FD 50mm lens kit 85 205 telezooom 28mm wide $75.00 Time Remaining: 1d 9h 18m |
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 VINTAGE MINOLTA AUTO WIDE 35MM FILM CAMERA ROKKOR 28 35 LENS $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 9h 32m |
 Vivitar TL45 instant auto focus camera 27mm Wide Angle Lens uses 110 film used $9.99 Time Remaining: 14d 6h 54m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Plaubel Makina III w Wide Angle 73cm 68 Lens in Compur shutter+ extra $799.00 Time Remaining: 27d 5h 8m Buy It Now for only: $799.00 |
 Pentax K1000 35mm camera with 28 mm lens 200mm lens ultra wide lens flash $20.75 (5 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 12h 58m |
 Canon AE 1Program 35mm SLR Film Camera + 28 28mm Wide Angle Lens $122.99 Time Remaining: 6d 16h 51m Buy It Now for only: $122.99 |
 Nikon Nikkormat FT2 35mm Camera with Vivitar 35mm 128 Auto Wide Angle lens $100.00 Time Remaining: 2d 1h 19m |
 CANON T70 PROGRAMMED W SAKAR MC Wide Angle Lens 28mm 128 $49.95 Time Remaining: 11d 16h 54m Buy It Now for only: $49.95 |
 CANON DIAL 35 HALF FRAME UNIQUE UNCOMMON FILM CAMERA 28MM WIDE ANGLE LENS $12.50 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 8h 26m |
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 Vintage Asahi PENTAX K 1000 CAMERA 12 50MM Lens Wide Neck Strap Sunpack Flash $29.99 Time Remaining: 2d 11h 28m |
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 Pentax 6x7 45mm f 4 SMC Medium Format Wide Angle Lens With Caps 8430213 $339.00 Time Remaining: 2d 12h 20m |
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 RICOH WIDE 24 35MM RANGEFINDER CAMERA WITH 35MM F124 FAST WIDE ANGLE LENS $135.00 Time Remaining: 25d 10h 12m Buy It Now for only: $135.00 |
 Pentax 6x7 55mm f 4 SMC Medium Format Wide Angle Lens With Caps 8496379 $269.00 Time Remaining: 2d 12h 20m |
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 Custom Hand Held 8x10 View Camera with 190mm Wide Field Ektar Case $1,175.00 Time Remaining: 12d 4h 38m Buy It Now for only: $1,175.00 |
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 Canon A 1 35mm SLR Camera With Canon 28mm Wide Angle Lens $21.32 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 7h 34m |
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 Sinar F 4X5 View Camera W Wide Angle Bellows And 2 Lens Boards $399.00 Time Remaining: 3d 13h 15m |
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 NIKON Action Touch 35mm wide angle f28 lens All weather Underwater close focus $24.99 Time Remaining: 4d 12h 28m |
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 Sea Sea Underwater Camera MX 10 YS 40A strobe wide angle lens o rings strap $69.99 Time Remaining: 4d 13h 23m |
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 Pentax ME Super 35mm SLR Film Camera W Lens Plus Vivitar 28mm 128 MC Wide $39.95 Time Remaining: 4d 14h 15m |
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 Nikon Nikkormat camera with 24mm 128 Vivitar Auto Wide Angle Lens $225.00 Time Remaining: 19d 10h 9m Buy It Now for only: $225.00 |
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 Bronica SQ A w 50mm 35 Zenzanon Wide Angle lens Professional 6x6 SLR camera $475.60 Time Remaining: 12h 22m Buy It Now for only: $475.60 |
 Lot of 4 Vintage Kaligar Cameras Lenses for Kodak Instamatic Telephoto Wide $20.00 Time Remaining: 4d 15h 51m |
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 Minolta XG A 35mm SLR Film Camera with bonus wide angle Rokinon lens $30.00 Time Remaining: 4d 23h 4m Buy It Now for only: $80.00 |
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 381MM 15 WIDE ANGLE APO TYPE LENS $59.00 Time Remaining: 5d 9h 8m |
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 OLYMPUS IS 50 ALL IN ONE 28MM 120MM SLR CAMERA WIDE ZOOM 35MM FILM CAMERA NICE $29.99 Time Remaining: 5d 12h 10m |
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 Carl Zeiss Flektogon MC 50mm F4 Wide Angle Lens for Pentacon Six Kiev 60 88 CM $199.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 52m |
 BOWER 038X SUPER WIDE HR MACRO AF LENS DIGITAL 35mm $37.00 Time Remaining: 14d 5h 6m Buy It Now for only: $37.00 |
 New USA Voigtlander Ultra Wide Heliar 12mm 12 56 f 56 M Lens NEX M43 Leica $749.00 Time Remaining: 26d 14h 43m Buy It Now for only: $749.00 |
 Nikon One Touch 35mm Camera with 2 Extra Lenses a Wide Angle and a Telephoto $3.00 Time Remaining: 6d 10h 49m |
 Fuji Fujifilm Instax Mini 7s Film Camera Pink Hello Kitty + Holga Wide Tele Lens $163.99 Time Remaining: 19d 16h 5m Buy It Now for only: $163.99 |
 Minolta Maxxum 7000i 35mm Camera Zoom Wide Angle Lenses Flash Polarizers $148.00 Time Remaining: 6d 11h 32m |
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 Canon AE 1 with 50mm Canon lens Flash and Wide Angle Lens $25.00 Time Remaining: 6d 13h 20m |
 Fuji Fujifilm Instax Mini 7S Hello Kitty Film Camera Blue + Holga Wide Tele Lens $167.99 Time Remaining: 19d 21h 6m Buy It Now for only: $167.99 |
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 MINOLTA DYNAX 5 35MM SLR CAMERA W MINOLTA WIDE ANGLE LENS $100.00 Time Remaining: 6d 14h |
 Fuji Fujifilm Instax Mini 7S White Hello Kitty Toy Camera + Holga Wide Tele Lens $177.99 Time Remaining: 13d 18h 33m Buy It Now for only: $177.99 |
 EXAKTA VX1000 + Auto VIVITAR Wide 28mm f25 + ZEISS Tessar 50mm f2 + 2 finders $61.00 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 6d 15h 32m |
 DIY 135 Film Camera 28mm Wide Lens Model Kit Lomo holga $13.90 Time Remaining: 2h 57m Buy It Now for only: $13.90 |
 New USA Voigtlander 12mm Ultra Wide Heliar 12 56 f 56 Lens w VF Leica M NEX $738.00 Time Remaining: 5d 9h 22m Buy It Now for only: $738.00 |
 Taron 35 Rangefinder Camera Complete With Tele Wide Lens $41.83 Time Remaining: 8d 20h 20m |
 Fuji Fujifilm Instax Mini 7s White Film Camera Polaroid + Holga Wide Tele Lens $143.99 Time Remaining: 20d 18h 44m Buy It Now for only: $143.99 |
 Limited Edition E MOOK Superheadz Wide Lens Camera Clover San SLIM Film Camera $61.00 Time Remaining: 9d 7h 11m |
 Mamiya Super 23 Universal Press Camera 50mm f 63 Wide Biogon Type Lens w Body $599.00 Time Remaining: 26d 5h 31m Buy It Now for only: $599.00 |
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Creative Photography: Choose the Right Lens for the Job
A new digital camera comes with a multitude of features, but one of the first things we consider is the quality and power of the lens. But how many of us really understand what can be acheived by creative use of lenses?.
The difference between a wide angle lens and a telephoto lens is about more than just magnification. To get the most out of your lenses, you also need to understand how they affect depth of field and perspective.
You already know that the telephoto lens enlarges everything in the picture. But did you also know that when you zoom in, or attach your large telephoto lens, you also reduce the depth of field around the subject? This is a great method for eliminating a distracting background from your photo. The result is twofold: the narrow field of view minimizes how much of the background we can see, and the small depth of field ensures it will be completely out of focus.
So when photographing subjects like people and animals, using your telephoto lens (or zooming in with your zoom lens) is often the best approach. The result will be a very three dimensional effect, with the subject appearing to emerge sharp and clear from the blurry background.
On the other hand, your wide-angle lens does just the opposite. It certainly does a lot more than just make everything appear smaller. The wide angle lens takes in (as the name suggests) a much wider angle of view, and it has a much stronger depth of field than a standard or telephoto lens. That means that not only will you see a lot more of the background in your photo, but it will also be much more focused.
Consequently the wide-angle lens is not so good for portrait style photos, because the background is too distracting. On the other hand, it is excellent for landscape pictures, especially when you have objects both in the foreground and background that you need to keep in focus.
The other aspect of your choice of lens is perspective, which is a lot harder to explain without pictures, but I will give it a go.
Have you ever watched a cricket match on television? (If you are from the United States substitute baseball here). You will often see a close-up of the batsman, and notice that the wicket-keeper (shortstop) appears to be standing only a few feet behind him, and that the crowd in the grandstand seems only a short distance further away. When you see a side-on view, you may be surprised to see that the wicket-keeper is standing about ten meters behind the batsman, and of course we know that the grandstand is a good 60 meters or so further back. So what's going on?
The answer is simple. The very large telephoto lens used for the close-up shot tends to make objects at different distances seem much closer to each other than they really are. In short, it compresses the natural perspective, making people separated by some distance appear to be quite close to each other.
This principle also applies to landscape photography. Imagine a scene with a tree in the foreground and a mountain range in the distance. By standing a long way from the tree and shooting it with a telephoto lens, you will also enlarge the mountains in the background. As a result, they will appear much closer to the tree than they really are.
Now imagine taking the same scene with a wide-angle lens. By standing a lot closer to the tree, you can photograph it in such a way that it takes up the same amount of space in the composition. However, by reducing the scene to fit the tree in the frame, you also reduce the background...making it appear much further away than it really is.
In this way, the wide-angle lens does the opposite of the telephoto lens. It exaggerates the perspective, making objects at different distances appear much further apart than they really are.
Put simply, the end result of these two approaches is this; the telephoto lens adds prominence to the background, which will appear relatively large in your photos (albeit with depth of field issues in some cases). The wide-angle lens adds prominence to the foreground, making the background appear much smaller and more distant.
Thus by simply changing your choice of lenses, you can dramatically alter the impact of your photos. Imagine the creative possibilities; you have the power to control how the viewer sees not only your subject, but how it relates to the surroundings at the same time.
This is a tough subject to explain without pictures, but hey - you have a digital camera. Why not step outside right now and try out a few of these ideas. Or if you are feeling lazy, sit down and watch some sport on telly. It may actually teach you something about photography.
About the Author
Andrew Goodall is a professional nature photographer of 20 years experience. He is also an author, teacher and gallery owner. Visit http://www.naturesimage.com.au where you can see Andrew's images and ebooks, and subscribe to the free online newsletter for further tips.
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