Using Interchangeable Lenses

Video Transcript

"I'm Joey Gunz, Glamor Photographer. You can check me out on line at www.joeygunz.com. Now I am here on Expert Village today to talk to you about interchangeable lenses. So you've got a digital or a single SLR camera. One of the key advantages of having an SLR camera is the fact that you can change the lenses. Changing the lenses on your camera will give you the ability to zoom or to shoot wide angle or to shoot natural photography. I just happen to have small sampling of interchangeable lenses for my SLR system. The first one I kind of want to show you about; this one is really one of my favorite lenses. It's a 70 to 210 zoom Nicor Lens. It's a fairly slow lens. It only stops down to F4 to a 4. I really like this lens because it is pretty old. It is razor sharp for SLR but it is like a pretty kind of standard lens and it gives me everything that I need when I am in the studio shooting strobes. The second one I want to talk about is also a zoom lens but the focal length on this lens isn't as long. This is a 35 to 70 and this is probably a little bit more of a flexible lens. It allows me to get a little bit closer to my subject but to still be able to shoot wide, kind of wide angle and to be able to zoom and play a little bit. The third lens that I want to talk to you about. This is probably a little bit more of a specialty lens. It is a 75 to 35 millimeter zoom and I really kind of use this. It's right on the border line of being a fish eye but not really a fish eye because there is a magnification factor and a digital thing and it is 1.5 but that is for another time in store. But it pretty much gives me the ability to shoot wide angle shots. If you ever see those shots you could see way to the left and way to the right and everything in the middle is pushed really far back. They probably shot it with a fish eye lens and that is pretty close to what this one is but not really. Also I've got what is probably a dinosaur in the modern era of shooting. This is a fixed focal length lens. This is a 50 millimeter lens. It doesn't zoom and what I will do is I will kind of open this aperture up. You will see if you can actually see through there, maybe see how that thing opens up. This is a fixed focal length lens, 50 millimeter lens. Kind of decent for macro, photography. The thing I like about this lens is that it is super fast. It stops down to a 1.4 which means I could shoot in the dark with it with a long kind of exposure speed. So the true beauty of getting into an SLR is the fact that you can change lenses to get different affects in cameras. Go out, copy a few lenses, get some glass, make sure you keep it nice and clean and keep it in your bag. I'm Joey Gunz. Check me out on line a www.joeygunz.com. For Expert Village, we'll see you in our next tutorial. "