What Is A Wide Angle Lens?
Wide angle lens’s focal length is considerably smaller as compare to the focal length of a normal lens. A wide angle lens is on the whole a short focal length lens which is aimed to give a large and wide field of outlook. It is also perfect for working in limited areas. Wide angle lenses can make objects appear large when they are close to the lens and at the same time background items shrink in size.
These wide angle lenses are amazing for panoramic photography because they permit to acquire widespread sight of the scene that needs to be captured. Normally, any lens below 40mm focal length is considered as wide angle lens. The most commonly used wide angle lenses for 35 mm camera are: 14 mm, 17mm, 20 mm, 24mm, 28 mm and 35 mm.
35mm
35mm lens is a good choice for blunt work with a rangefinder or compact camera. It is comparatively wide angle of view which means that accurate framing is not that much important when working close to the object.
Fast 35mm lenses for example 35mm f1.4 for the Leica are good lenses for shooting in dim light.
28mm
For photojournalism 28mm has a fine focal length and a true wide-angle. It is lightly less wide but the depth of field is good as compare to 35mm
24mm, 21mm
These mega-wide lenses stretch the objects close to the boundaries of the frame. This wide angle deformation is not actually a distortion but it is a normal result of imaging over a wide angle.
Most of the people, for 35mm camera, use 28mm lens as a wide angle lens because this 28 mm focal length gives a wide angle effects without deforming images. These lenses also generate good quality depth of field. Close outlook of images captured with the help of wide angle lenses can appear hazy. The lenses amplify items which are closest to the camera. Photographers have to move in close to fill the frame while taking pictures with the help of wide angle lens. These lenses are perfect for special effects like purposeful distortion and so on.
Selecting a wide angle lens is a difficult task as there are different wide angle lenses available in the market however Canon wide angle lens is a good place to start with. Canon wide angle lens have an excellent repute. The most admired wide angle lens for Canon is 17-40 mm f/4 L retro-focus zoom lens. Merkury wide angle lens is also one of the best has a high def digital lens, 45 wide angle lenses with macro, anti-reflection coating and great speed focus. For digital camera wide angle lens or camcorder Cokin wide angle lens is good. It is an accessory lens and provides 50% more vision.
Fuji wide angle lens is available on the Internet and The wide angle lens 55mm is made by a number of companies such as Fuji wide angle lens, Nikon wide angle lens and so on. Tamron 11-18mm wide angle lens, not as wide as the Nikon, provides adoptability, versatility and flexibility.
Using wide angle lenses digital camera in origin means that now it is easy get closer to the object. Contrary to the belief of new photographers, digital camera wide angle lens is not used to get everything into the picture. It can be used to photograph interior of rooms but mostly it is used to get a better close up of the objects.
Wide angle lenses enter the market with different apertures, utilities and accessories.
