From the course: Prime Lenses for Photography and Video Production
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What is a prime lens?
From the course: Prime Lenses for Photography and Video Production
What is a prime lens?
- Jim, we've gathered a great collection of prime lenses for this class, all sorts of manufacturers. In front of you here, we've got everything from a very affordable micro four thirds lens to some cinema lenses, to even one that's modelled on a classic old style lens here, this Petzval lens here, which is a crazy lens that's just actually based on something that was made almost 150 years ago. Prime lens technology has been around sort of the, beginning of photography, right? - That's right, well there were primes before there were zooms. And that's just continued and gotten refined over the years, and with all the lenses out there, it's just another choice along with zooms, but the great equalizer of course is some of these newer digital cameras, and the mounts that come with them, that allow you to just pick and choose whatever you want, you can virtually put any lens on any camera these days. - [Rich] Yeah, it's really come a long way. And the thing to just sort of get it out…
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