2020

Store Photography Equipment Electronic moisture-proof cabinet August 13, 2020

How to Store Your Photographic Equipment

For many novices, most of them will only consider the of buying a good camera, and neglect how to maintain your photographic equipment. This time I will share with you how to save your photographic equipment! Humid environment is the enemy of our photographic equipment, because the mold is easy to breed in the humid environment....

Canon Fisheye Lens August 12, 2020

What Is a Fisheye Lens?

Fisheye lens is a special kind of ultra-wide-angle lens. Generally, the angle of view is close to or equal to 180°. Nikon has even introduced fisheyes that exceed 180° and reach 220°. Since the captured images are very similar to the images seen by fish, I will call them fisheye lenses. Most fisheye lenses generally have...

Canon Lens Label August 11, 2020

Canon Lens Label Interpretation

AFD:Arc-Form DriveArc DC motor is developed for AF drive of early EF lens. Unlike the USM motor, the AFD motor focus has sound. DO: Multi-Layer Diffractive Optical ElementCanon announced on September 4, 2000 that it had successfully developed the world's first "multilayer diffractive optical element" for use in a camera lens. The multi-layer diffractive optical lens...

Canon and Nikon Lens August 10, 2020

Anatomy of Lens

When everyone started using DSLR lenses, I felt confused: What does the name Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM mean? What is Nikon DX AF-S NIKKOR 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 GII ED? This string of abbreviations is almost like a strange language to novices. Today, let us use some lens labels from Canon and Nikon to tell...

August 9, 2020

9 Basic Knowledge of Lens

How to know the parameters of lens?Each manufacturer has its own definition. Take the above Nikon lens as an example. The lens is DX AF-S NIKKOR 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 GII ED DX: Nikon has developed a format for its "non-full-frame cameras", which corresponds to cameras with smaller light-sensitive components, so that the lens can be made smaller...

Kit Lens August 8, 2020

What is Kit Lens?

Many friends who want to buy DSLR cameras often see a term "Kit Lens" on the website. In fact, what is Kit Lens? What is special about Kit Lens? Is it worth buying? What is Kit Lens?First of all, we need to know that the lens of a single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) can be replaced. Therefore,...

Prime Lens vs Zoom Lens August 7, 2020

Prime Lens vs Zoom Lens

What are prime lenses and zoom lenses?Most ordinary Defocus Control (DC) lens can also "zoom far and zoom near" to compose pictures. It is indeed very convenient. In the world of digital single reflex (DSLR), the lens can be replaced. Of course, there are also this kind of lenses that can zoom near and far, but...

August 5, 2020

What is Constant Aperture Lens

When you buy a lens or search lens information on the Internet, you may find that some zoom lenses are particularly expensive, and unlike ordinary zoom lenses, there are 3.5-5.6 and other numeric strings. Instead, you only see a number such as f/2.8, f/ 4 Wait, do you know what is special about those lenses? Let’s...

Full-frame vs APS-C2 August 4, 2020

What is Full-frame?

The term Full-frame has recently become popular again due to the appearance of relatively cheap FF DSLRs such as Canon 5D and Nikon D700! So what is Full-frame? Not all DSLRs have the same format? In fact, you should have read the terms Full-frame and APS-C in newspapers and magazines. Now let’s take a look at...

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Tips to Keep You From Taking Blurry Photos

In photography teaching for many years, I have seen a lot of students switch to DSLR and shoot with the camera when they see the picture they like. Unfortunately, the photos taken are blurred due to various reasons, making the resulting effect better than using the old style. The point-and-shoot camera is even worse. After reading...