30 Nov
2009
I™m a big fan of wide-angle lenses for a lot of reasons; but for a long time I felt that wide-angle lenses were to be avoided.
It™s easy to get into the big number game and I did, for a while, when it came to lenses. Like most people at the time I thought that having the longest telephoto lens you could afford was the way to go.
Like so many others I had fun with my 400mm lens but in all honesty I never took a picture with it that was worth displaying.
So I left the ultra long lenses to the people who take pictures of bears, and lions, and tiny, rare birds, and went with shorter zooms, 28-70mm, e.g. and prime lenses of 35mm and shorter.
Why? Because for most people these focal lengths are more useful and more closely replicate what our eyes see.
Here™s a great article about wide angle lenses and a treatise on how those exotic “Perspective Shift Lenses” work.
Take a camera with you whenever possible, and look around, you™ll find a picture somewhere.
Photo Source:www.eiffeltowerpictures.net
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