From the course: Introduction to Photography
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Understanding lenses
- There are a lot of complex parts in a modern camera but one of the most critical components is the lens. It's the lens that focuses the light from your scene onto the image sensor in your camera. And different lenses will do a better or worse job of focusing that light. A superior lens will yield an image with sharper details, better contrast, richer colors. Also sometimes, a lens just has an indefinable quality that you might prefer, even if you can't identify exactly why. But image quality is not the only thing that separates one lens from another. Every lens is engineered to have a specific focal length. This is the physical length of the lens. And a lenses' focal length has a profound impact on what you will see through the lens. This is because focal length determines the lenses' field of view. Field of view should not be a confusing concept to you because you live with a visual field of view all the time. Right now, your eyes are revealing a certain field of view to you. If…
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