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Telephoto Lenses
Telephoto lenses are high-magnification devices. These are for when you are
photographing something from far away either because you want to flatten
perspective or because you are unable to approach your subject.
It is difficult and expensive to produce a high-quality telephoto lens. In fact,
only in the last couple of decades have manufacturers been able to design
really high quality 300mm and longer lenses.
Telephoto lenses can be useful for portraits, most often in the 85-180mm
range. Photography of large animals is facilitated by 300-600mm lenses.
Photography of birds starts with a 600mm lens and goes up from there.
Telephoto lenses that serious photographers buy include the following:
● 100mm macro lenses, capable of focusing down to 1:1
● 85-105mm super-fast portrait lenses, e.g., the old Nikon
105/1.8
● 180/2.8 reasonably light portrait lens
● 300/4 + 1.4X teleconverter lightweight wildlife kit ($1,500)
● 300/2.8 + 1.4X teleconverter heavyweight wildlife kit
($5,000)
● 600/4 + 1.4X teleconverter bird photography kit ($10,000)
Teleconverters
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