Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about long telephoto prime lenses will know that they cost a king’s ransom and are large and heavy. At least the Vivitar 500mm f/8 checks the “large” box, but for a prime lens at this focal length which costs just shy of a hundred dollars, the price point
Focal lengths can be a strange concept when your first start out in photography. Those numbers labeled on a lens, usually in millimeters, may seem arbitrary, but they do have a lot of meaning behind them. Once you learn the principles behind focal length, the information can teach you on a number of levels from
When it comes to smartphone cameras, the majority usually use them like point and shoot devices. Nothing wrong with that, but the phones themselves they are becoming ever more sophisticated, so it doesn’t harm to expand your knowledge a little, especially when it comes to knowing the camera focal length. All the principles below can
