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Specialty lenses

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So far we've mostly been looking at fairly everyday lenses, but there are lots of other optical gizmos that you can attach to your camera to achieve all sorts of effects. You can get strange effects, or stylized effects, or even some practical effects. You're already seen a fisheye lens and how it gives you a very wide and very distorted view of a scene. On the more practical end of the spectrum are macro lenses, which allow you to shoot extreme close-ups of objects. Technically what makes a macro a macro lens is that there is a one-to-one relationship between the size of the object that you're shooting and the size of the image that gets captured. I'm going to skip all the math bit and we'll just say that when you shoot with a macro lens you can shoot close-ups and get perspectives that you just can't shoot with non-macro lenses. Like other lenses macro lenses come in a variety of focal lengths. This is a 100mm macro, but you might also see 60 and 50 millimeter macro lenses. Those…

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