Lenses for Digital Slrs

by Hoddinott, Ross

• ISBN13: 9781907708343
• ISBN10: 1907708340
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-01
• Publisher: Ammonite Press

Summary

It's very easy, when investing in new camera gear, to put all your energy into choosing the right body, only for that most crucial of factors-the lens-to become an almost secondary consideration. Lenses for Digital SLRs: The Expanded Guide, redresses that balance. Covering everything from focal length to depth of field, prime versus zoom lenses, and specialist optics, this book manages to unravel the technicalities of lenses while remaining comprehensible and reader friendly. Throughout the book, the reader is guided through basic terminology, common focal lengths, what optical quality means in terms of the photographs they take, and eventually comes to understand the anatomy of the camera lens and its effect on the image. This book is all illustrated in the author's trademark style of inspirational yet accessible photography and contains chapters on modern lens technology; wide-angle, standard, and specialist lenses; the digital darkroom; and more.

Author Biography

Ross Hoddinott is a multi award-winning photographer and one of the UK’s leading natural history and landscape photographers. He won the BBC Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award in 1995, and his work has been regularly featured in photographic and wildlife magazines, including Outdoor Photography, Photography Monthly, and BBC Wildlife. He has authored or co-authored several other books on photographic technique, including Digital Macro Photography, Landscape Photography Workshop, The Pip Expanded Guide to the Nikon D200, and Wildlife Photography Workshop.