In all types of photography everything starts with the lens.

It makes sense that everyone who uses digital cameras for anything more than the few times per year casual snap shots be well informed about lenses.

You have to know about quality, i.e. what makes one lens perform better than others, and the various uses for which different lenses are designed.

Lenses come in different types, "normal", which give full frame coverage, "wide angle", which allow a picture to capture a wider field of view, and "telephoto", which magnifies distant objects.

Of course most photographers use "zoom" lenses of varying focal length in order to provide a little of each of the above.

Check out this excellent website and learn all you can about digital camera lenses and see what you've been missing.

Take a camera with you whenever possible, and look around, you'll find a picture somewhere.

Source:www.dpreview.com