Camera Lenses Explained For Beginners (What Do The Numbers Mean?)

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📒 Show Notes 📒

1️⃣ (Video) Camera Basics for Beginners

2️⃣ (Video) BEST Lenses for Canon M50 II (Ultimate Buyers Guide For Video and Photography)

⏰ Timecodes ⏰
0:00 Camera Lenses Beginner's Guide
0:41 Lens Mount Sizes
5:29 What is focal length?
6:40 Zoom vs Prime Lens
7:32 What is the Aperture?
9:27 Minimum Focus Distance
10:01 Filter Thread Size
10:45 Lens Stabilization

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In this video, Nolan shares a tutorial on what camera lenses are and what the numbers mean. This is a video of camera lenses explained for beginners.

[veroxid]

A little tip that no one seemed to tell me about lenses:
You can actually take the lens cap and the sensor cap and screw them together to keep dust out of them when the lens is connected to your camera.

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[gordon]

It is a common practice to use full frame lenses on crop (APS-C) cameras among wildlife photographer to increase the reach.

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