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By: Phillip Mansfield Updated September 15, Share It. Learning how to get better at landscape photography is a simple matter of using tried and true tricks for composing great shots. Use these tips to do just that. ON Demand.
Signup Login. Inspirational Photo Nov Inspirational Photo Nov 9. Inspirational Photo Nov 8. Inspirational Photo Nov 7. Forum Home Recent Topics Search. Start Prev 1 Next End. I have a mm lens. Is this lens a zoom or telephoto? What is the difference?
It can either be a prime lens that has just one focal length like 70mm, mm, mm etc. A zoom lens just covers a range of focal lengths but can also cover the telephoto range, for instance mm.
But it can go from say, and is called a wide to telephoto lens because it covers the wide angle length beginning at 24mm in this example and extends through the telephoto range. It is wonderful bluish-white color. You can see in the first picture which is a full-frame and gives a lot of uninteresting subjects too. But the same scene is captured with a telephoto lens, cutting out all of the extraneous details and just focusing on what was important about the shot which is water flowing through.
So the telephoto lens has compressed everything here, so we have got the waterfall in the background and water is running off into the stream in the foreground. As I have just said that minimal abstract images work really well when you can find repeated pans where you have got layers. Using a telephoto lens can really elevate your level of photography to the next level when you can find a single point of interest, something for the eye to focus on, that actually interrupts the pan.
It is why the telephoto lens is interesting because it let you reach out over that boring foreground and frame more interesting elements of the scene. Now, this is a very classic shot of the Belvedere Farmhouse in Tuscany, Italy. The foreground is really boring, withstanding in the middle of a field which is nothing to capture in the image.
But what actually attractive is the farmhouse that sits on the hill and is surrounded by mist with the valley and different hills going off into the distance and again at moring, this is particularly full of mist.
So, you get the compression between the different layers again the hills at the back and the farmhouse which now becomes the foreground. Eliminating unexciting foregrounds using a telephoto lens, sometimes allows you to eliminate uninteresting skies because quite often nothing is interesting happening in the sky and is giving nothing to the image. So, in reality, it is going to be detracting from the image and so it should be removed.
By using a telephoto lens you have a chance to capture a much tighter image and cut out the sky from the scene and create a much more abstract-focused composition. Now I am going to highlight a few photography situations where zoom lens perform better. You can use zoom lens for the following kinds of photography:. The most important reason you need a zoom lens is its variable focal length. For example, if you are having a lens of focal length ranging from 70 — , then you can shoot something wide at 70mm.
Similarly, if you want to shoot something closer, you can change your focal length to something greater. So, you can have a variable focal length. You can be at a position where you can zoom and change the composition. This is the negative point of prime and simple telephoto lenses since they cannot zoom and you actually have to move by yourself.
Another reason for using a zoom lens is sports and wildlife photography. For this reason, you need to have a zoom lens so you can adjust your focal length, whether the subject is near or far, and also if the subject is moving or still depending on the type of animal or type of situation you are in.
So, the zoom lens is obviously the go-to choice for wildlife and sports photography. Now you might wonder that sport and wildlife might need a zoom lens somehow but why for landscape photos when you can have a wide-angle lens?
Actually, a zoom lens is a must for landscape photographers because if you want to actually focus on the smaller part of the landscape, you actually need a zoom lens. Take an example below:. Easy example of a telephoto lens - putting a 2x teleconverter on a mm lens to make it mm lens without adding another mm of optics. On the flip side, many wide lenses are a retrofocus design. Also, some mm zooms might not be actual telephoto lenses, since they are a good mm long when at maximum focal lengths Community Bot 1.
Oh dear. I'm sure you are most certainly correct. But I forgot to add to my question, "Please talk to me like I'm stupid. Hah, I assumed you either knew that information or could easily figure it out, but I like to give very concise answers : — rm On telephoto and retrofocus, and zoom lens design: The simple definition of a telephoto lens is a lens that has a focal length longer than the physical lens.
Consider a nice 4x5 field camera: The maximum extension for this camera is mm. And that's what the telephoto design is for. Related reading: History of photographic lens design So when do you want to use it: Unless you are dealing with a large format system and looking at the rail on your camera, you aren't going to care about how the lens is designed and if the actual focal length is the distance between the lens and the focal plane or not.
Bailey Bailey 1 1 1 bronze badge. This is in the ballpark, but isn't quite correct. See What lens focal length most closely resembles the perspective of the human eye? Zoom lens is the general term used for any lens that varies its focal length.
Telephoto lenses are lenses that usually have a very high focal length to capture far away objects. A lens can either be zoom or telephoto, both, or neither.
Zoom exists in almost all cameras while telephoto lenses are used mainly in professional photography and other high end applications. Earl Kliethermes Earl Kliethermes 1. Hi, welcome to Photo. A telephoto lens is strictly a lens that uses a telephoto group to reduce its overall length to be short than its focal length. While your 3rd point is technically true, it's a meaningless statement with regards to the OP's question and understanding.
This isn't right. It isn't even wrong. Most consumer zoom lenses with large focal length ratios in fact are also telephoto lenses. Yeah, I want to vote this up welcome to Stack Exchange! I fixed up the formatting and made the intro a little more neutral. PusabumCanuck PusabumCanuck 1. A number of the other answers here disagree that telephoto lenses must be prime.
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