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Your Basic DSLR Lens Kit

#174 | 23:24 |

Lab Rats

Monday June 8, 2009

Sean and Andy take a look at how removable lenses work on a digital SLR camera and show off which types of lenses you should add to your camera bag.

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Generally the sensor is hidden behind a mirror, which flips up when the picture is taken.

Full description of focal length at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_length.

A "prime" lens is one with no zoom capabilities: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_lens.

About the aperature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture.

Australia cheese image: technologytips.com/cheese.

Some wide-angle lenses can be thousands... more than the camera, potentially!

Many bird photographs at Sean's Flickr stream: flickr.com/photos/globalhermit.

Telephoto lenses generally come with a special tripod mount for the lens itself.

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