Why use lens hood?

Posted by Rhycel | Saturday, April 11, 2009

Lens hoods that sometimes comes with most good quality lenses is designed to

reduce or eliminate the lens flare that ca creep into your lens when shooting outdoors in daylight. Another reason why Pros keep a lens hood on (even indoors) is to protect the lens. The glass end of your lens ispretty much flushed to the end of the lens barrel, and if it comes in contact with anything that's not really soft it can get scratched, dirty among others. The lens hood serves as a buffer between the lens and the world around it.

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Why wide-angle lenses?

Posted by Rhycel | Friday, April 10, 2009

There are basically six reasons for using wide-angle lenses/wide zoom settings...


  • to give you more room to shoot

  • to broaden your field of view

  • to increase apparent depth of field

  • to emphasize the foreground

  • to add creative distortion

  • to provide an interesting angle


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