I’m sure we all had one of those days when we went out to buy a camera lense and you bought the wrong one or it didn’t do what you thought it would. Or maybe the lenses only made videos with terrible quality, but this is where all your struggles come to an end. With these handy tips you won’t have one of those issues again.
For most Camcorders they come with certain lenses that can’t be interchangeable with other lenses which leaves your options extremely limited. You could go out and buy more camcorders for the different lenses, but that’d be extremely expensive. Instead of doing that you should go and get a DSLR or a newer camcorder with interchangeable options.
To really know if you’re getting a good deal or not, you should learn some terms like the prime lens and the zoom lens. The Prime lens is considered the most used camera lens in the DSLR kitbag. Though the prime lens can’t zoom, it’s less complicated to use, on the other hand zoom lens’s do exactly what the name suggests. They allow the camera to zoom in on certain shots, but they are more complicated and can be harder to use.
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Focal length shots are crucial for most shooting pieces so you need to know which does which. Lenses with 24mm or less shoot a very wide field of view, lenses with 24mm-35mm shoot wide angles, they are mostly used to capture landscapes.
For more information please consult http://www.videomaker.com/article/17183-camera-lenses-buyer%E2%80%99s-guide an article made by Randy Hansen.