Shows how to understand, choose, and properly use lenses.
Overview
Syllabus
1. Introduction
- Welcome
- Who is this course for?
- Why does the lens matter?
- Changing lenses
- A word about camera brands
- What is a lens?
- Field of view
- Image sensors and field of view
- Focal length multipliers
- Primes and zooms
- Focal length, camera position, and composition
- Exercise: Taking ugly self-portraits
- Shooting wide
- Shooting telephoto
- Focal length applications
- Depth of field (DOF)
- DOF and sensor size
- DOF and background size
- Deep DOF and diffraction artifacts
- Choosing a lens
- Lenses for crop sensor cameras
- Image quality
- Lens features
- Size and weight
- Lens notes for Micro Four Thirds
- Specialty lenses
- Where to buy
- Lens caps
- Focus point selection
- Center-point auto-focus
- Servo focus
- Focus troubleshooting: What to do when your auto-focus doesn't
- Filters
- Auto-focus and live view
- Maintenance
- Micro-focus adjustments
- Goodbye
Taught by
Ben Long
