Summary: Find out what lens is in the digital camera you want to buy and research what flash will work for you. Learn all about camera lenses and flashes in this free photography video.
Cody Davis earned his second-degree black belt in 2006. He is a great teacher of the Shaolin/Kenpo arts. Sifu Davis has been a student of the arts for more than 13 years.read more
"Now there's other good optics and optics basically is the lens like the Carl Zeiss Lens which is made in Germany. Always had an excellence reputation are now basically have an exclusive agreement with Sony so even the Sony with Carl Zeiss Lens are equivalent to the Cannons, the Nikons, the Olympus and Pentax. Also Panasonic has an exclusive agreement with Leica and Leica makes great lenses too. Which are better? Well it's real hard to say, they are all fairly equivalent and it depends on who you talk to as far as professional photographers which lenses they like. Another thing that's important is flash, how far will the flash go and the lower end of the lens and how much the lower end of the lens means what equivalent does it have on a film camera like a twenty-eight millimeter lens is very good for scenes. They also have thirty-five millimeter, thirty-five millimeter sometimes isn't enough to get scenes completely in but at thirty five millimeter there is very little distortion as far as a curvature. Whereas a twenty-eight millimeter there is starts to become some curvature in your photograph and some distortion in that direction if you're too close to something."