Lens Types

Discover all the different types of camera lenses on Cameraby.com. Explore wide-angle, zoom, macro, fisheye, tilt-shift lenses, and more to find the perfect fit for your photography style.

  • Wide Angle Lenses
    A lens with a short focal length that captures a wide field of view. Typically used in landscape, architecture, and interior photography.
  • Wide Angle Prime Lenses
    A wide-angle lens with a fixed focal length, offering no zoom. Ideal for capturing wide views in landscapes or architecture.
  • Wide Angle Zoom Lenses
    A zoom lens that covers wide-angle focal lengths, allowing flexibility in framing wide scenes like landscapes or architecture.
  • Fisheye Lenses
    A lens that provides an extremely wide angle of view, creating a spherical, distorted image. Often used for creative and artistic photography.
  • Standard Lenses
    A versatile lens with a focal length that closely matches human vision, commonly used for everyday photography.
  • Standard Prime Lenses
    A prime lens with a standard focal length, offering no zoom functionality. Suitable for portraits and street photography.
  • Standard Zoom Lenses
    A zoom lens with a standard focal length range, ideal for general-purpose photography where flexibility in framing is needed.
  • Macro Lenses
    A lens designed for close-up photography, allowing for detailed shots of small subjects like insects or flowers.
  • Macro 1:1 Lenses
    A macro lens offering a 1:1 magnification ratio, used for capturing true-to-life close-up images of small objects.
  • Super Zoom Lenses
    A lens with an extensive zoom range, covering both wide-angle and telephoto focal lengths. Suitable for travel and all-in-one photography needs.
  • Super Telephoto Lenses
    A long focal length lens designed to capture distant subjects. Often used in sports, wildlife, and bird photography.
  • Telephoto Lenses
    A lens that magnifies distant subjects, typically used in portrait, wildlife, and sports photography.
  • Telephoto Prime Lenses
    A telephoto lens with a fixed focal length, offering no zoom. Often used in situations like sports or wildlife photography where magnification of distant subjects is required.
  • Telephoto Zoom Lenses
    A zoom lens that covers telephoto focal lengths, allowing the user to bring distant subjects closer. Ideal for events, sports, and wildlife.
  • Tilt-Shift Lenses
    A specialized lens that allows the photographer to control perspective and depth of field. Often used in architectural and product photography.
Henrik Törner

Written by Henrik Törner

Camera Expert and Founder of Cameraby

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