How to Choose a Lens for an SLR

One of the great things about buying an SLR camera is that you can change the lens to suit the shot at hand. But it can be daunting to choose a few from the hundreds of different lenses on the market. Lens categories are based on their focal length.

Here Masood Aini shares common types of lenses which are wide-angle, telephoto, and macro. Wide-angle lenses are great for panoramic landscape shots. Telephoto lenses bring distant objects closer, but they’re great for portraits, too. Macro lenses focus on objects that are very close.