Best camera lenses for the professional photographer

prime lens

The term “fixed lens” is short for fixed focal length lens. As the name suggests it is a lens which provides the users with just one focal length – meaning it doesn’t zoom at all.

wide-angle lens

A wide-angle lens has a field of view significantly wider than that of the human eye. You can just capture a huge amount of a scene in a single image.

Zoom lens

A zoom lens is a type of camera lens that is offers the photographer a useful range of different focal lengths in a single lens. A zoom lens allows for quick and easy re-framing of a scene while staying in the same physical position.

Tele Photo lens

Telephoto lens magnify the image, bringing the subject closer. Large telephotos (“long lens”) are popular with sports photographers, while shorter telephotos are often used for portrait photography.

macro lens

A macro lens is a lens designed for taking extreme close-up photos of a subject. Most macro lens can be used for normal photography but are more expensive than the equivalent lens without the macro capability.

fish-eye lens

A fisheye lens is quite specialised and not generally used for every day photography due to its highly distorted imagery. However it’s extremely wide angle of view is very useful in some applications.