A List Of 3 Main Types Of Olympus Camera Lenses

If you consider yourself a hobbyist photographer, then one way of taking better pictures, and making photography much more enjoyable, is to buy a digital SLR. With a digital SLR, you have the opportunity to own a large collection of Olympus camera lenses. The lenses generally fall into three classes, limiting your choices.

All the different Olympus camera lenses are categorized as: telephoto, portrait, and macro.

Telephoto Lenses

Telephoto lenses are a type of long-focus lens. In other words, this means that the physical length of the lens is smaller than the focal length.

Also, this means that you are able to focus on things located a long distance away. Have you ever seen pictures of wildlife? Such images are usually shot with a telephoto lens.

Portrait Lenses

This is not the technical nomenclature for such lenses; this is a great name for the lens though, as they are generally used to take portraits. If a person poses just a few meters in front of the camera, a telephoto will allow you to focus on the person's eye! Usually, you will want to include at least the full face.

Aperture is an important factor in how beautiful your portrait pictures are, and if decide on this kind of photography, it is definitely worth purchasing a more expensive lens with a wider aperture. There is a distinguishable difference in photos that have f/1.4 and a f/2.8 aperture. You will want to definitely test out such lenses. This way, you will know how beautiful images can be.

What such a lens does, is it lets you to focus only on one aspect of your target or model. For example, if the model is holding a cup of coffee, then you can use the camera, with a f/1.4 lens, to focus only on just the model's features, but have the cup blurred.

Macro Lenses

Macro lenses are usually used in close up photography. They are utilized to create the photographs of insects and small animals. A usual feature of such a lens is the sharp depth of field.

A typical worry with macro lenses is lack of light. If you want to participate in this style of photography, make sure that you play around with the lighting in order to become accustomed to the required lighting.

What to buy?

If you are not sure which lens to own, and are still exploring, then buying one or two zoom lenses is the way to go. A zoom lens will allow you to overlap between the possibilities of the portrait lens and the telephoto lens.

By: LazarusMC

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