Download or read book Lenses for Digital SLRs written by Ross Hoddinott and published by Ammonite Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It s very easy, when investing in new camera gear, to put all your energy into choosing the right body, only for that most crucial of factors the lens to become an almost secondary consideration. Lenses for Digital SLRs redresses that balance. Covering everything from focal length to depth of field, prime versus zoom lenses and specialist optics, this book manages to unravel the technicalities of lenses while remaining comprehensible and reader-friendly. Throughout the book, the reader is guided through basic terminology, common focal lengths, what optical quality means in terms of the photographs they take and eventually comes to understand the anatomy of the camera lens and its effect on the image.