Lenses - A Masterclass

1. Introduction: Alright, thank you very much for clicking on this video. My name is lambdas overdose and I am a third year medical students and part-time filmmaker. I also run a YouTube channel with more than $1.5 million US AND have collaborated with various brands along my journey. Now way I can read your thoughts through the screen. You might be asking yourself, why would a medical student teach me everything about lenses? Let me answer that. I've never been in film school and I've never really sat down with someone between lenses. No one has ever really told me what I shared with you in this course. Everything I know and have achieved in this field is purely from hustling trial and error and countless hours of just grabbing my idea and going out to shoot photographs and video. In this course, I share with you everything that I've learned about lenses during those five years in the field, as well as my personal suggestions on which lead you should buy on every lamp category that we analyzed. In addition to that, I also include some medical school memorizing strategies so you can memorize and learn faster everything that we mentioned in this course. So what are you waiting for? Click the next video, and let's be Capulet together this beast called lenses. 2. Anatomy of a Lens: So thank you very much for joining me in our journey to become experts in lenses. This first video right here I named for the sake of medical school via anatomy of the lens. And this is a video where are we going to really set some basic foundations in step with our next lessons on lenses. Now a small disclaimer. This video may be all over the place, but don't stress from the next lesson, we're going to start analyzing the categories of lenses. It's just that we need to get some things out of the way before I start giving you all of my personal experience and information that I've learned through the years about lenses. So let's go. Mars is made from four lessons. In each one of those four lessons, we analyze one lens category. The first one is going to be about wide-angle lenses. The second one midrange is the third line about della photos and the fourth one about prime lenses. During those four lessons, I will be saying everything I know about those categories. So I would wireless suggest you do take some notes because when we write something down, we are most likely to remember it by will also help you by putting some titles on screens and some graphs that I've personally made in order to help you memorize what I say in those four lessons easily. So when you take notes, you might want to take into consideration what I put in the top of the screen as a title because these are the most important points that you might want to remember. So let's begin. Now, black is in every lens, okay? Even if this lands costs €10 thousand or €200, every lens has two common values. The first value that every lens has a focal length and the focal length of a lens describes how much it zooms in or zooms out. It is measured in millimeters. And the lower the focal length is, the wider the lens is going to be. For example, a ten millimeter focal length is going to be more wide than it 200 millimeter focal length. Focal lengths are usually indicated on top of the lenses with numbers, and they make the identity of every lens. The second key characteristic that every lens has is the aperture. The lower the aperture of the lens, the more it can open up and the more like can enter inside the lens if it has a low aperture. Also, low operators in Lenses usually produced this amazing creamy background that we love to see in portrait. So what makes a lens expensive? Okay, when we hear lenses, we think that, okay, sometimes lenses can be more expensive than cameras. They're very fragile and very expensive. So what really makes a lens expensive? Let me answer that. It is the combination of a focal length and then aperture. When a lens has a high focal length and the low opportunity, this combination makes it really expensive. That's why we see, for example, lenses that are 400 millimeters, which is a huge focal length. And they have an aperture of F4, which is relatively low for a 100 millimeters, as we're gonna talk about in the telephoto corps. When you have those two characteristics combined together, we're gonna have a very expensive lens, and this lends the 400 millimeter f four costs more than €10 thousand. As you're gonna see that we're going to analyze in the next lessons, the lens selection that you want to consider for your camera really depends on the type of camera body that you're using. If you're using a APS-C camera, which is a crop frame or a full frame camera. The crop factor that ABC cameras have, which multiplies the focal length of a lens times 1.6 can really alter the type of lens. For example, if we have a wide-angle lens at 35 millimeters and we multiply it by 1.6. Suddenly it's not a wide lens anymore. It is a mid-range. So you might want to take this into consideration when I suggest some of the lens, although I mentioned it every time I suggest Lens. Part of the anatomy of the lens are these two buttons right here on some lenses. And the first button is the autofocus and manual focus button. So when we turn it into autofocus, then the camera will combine with the electronics of the lens and always nailed the focus without you touching the focus ring of the lens. In contrast, when we flipped the switch into manual focus than the camera and the lens are completely disconnected and we can control what we wanted to focus on the image through our focus ring. The second switch that most lenses have is this switch right here, which is the image stabilization. Imitability is really useful for both photographs and videos. When we flip the image stabilization switch app on, then the lens becomes image stabilized and it will produce less shake when we're having hand-held shooting, every lens has also two rings. The first one, usually the ring that is more outside of the lands is the focus ring. Now the focus ring works only when were switched on manual focus, and it helps us focus anywhere we want on our composition. The second ring, also known as the zoom ring, controls how much we zoom in or zoom out. So if we turn the second ring, we see the lens extending, which the indication that we are zooming in. Finally, most lenses also come with a lens hood that serves for two functions. The first function is purely for protective reasons. So if we, for example, swing our lands back and forward and we hit an object, we don't want to damage the glass that is in front of the lens, which we call the front element. We don't want to damage different elements, so the lens hood protects it from that. The second function of a lens hood is to minimize lens flare. Lens flare is produced when viewing our shoot, we have the sun somewhere facing the land. So we have this small circle of sun. I don't know how to explain it better in our composition. So when we use a lens hood, it really diminishes the appearance of this circle San reflection that we have in our composition. So this pretty much it for the anatomy of the lens are first introductory lesson through the scores. I know it might have been a lovely place because they give you a lot of information in a really short amount of time. But we really need to set some basic foundation. We're gonna step with our next lessons on lenses. So thank you very much and I'll see you in the next lesson where we're going to analyze our first lens category and my personal favorite one, the wide-angle lenses. Thank you very much. 3. The Wides: Alright, thank you for joining me for at least the second lesson of this course. In this lesson we're gonna talk about wide-angle lenses. So I hope that we have said some basic foundation in Vienna with a lens, the first lesson. So let's dive right into it. What makes a lens wide? What is a wide-angle lens? Well, this certainly depends on the camera body that you're using. If you're using a full frame camera or a dropped frame camera. So on full frame cameras that do not have a crop factor, wide-angle lenses neat, have a focal length less than 35 millimeters, so Thirty-five millimeters and below. And lensing is a decision to be a wide angle. And now crop frame cameras have a crop of 1.6 times the focal length of the lens. So if we're using a 35 millimeter lens on a crop frame camera, we need to multiply this focal length times 1.6 if we're using the canons, for example, frame camera, but other companies have similar crop factors. So 35 times 1.6, this is about 56 millimeters, so it is not wide anymore. So if we want to have a wide-angle lens on a crop sensor camera, we need these focal length to be just below 24 millimeters. Now, wide-angle lenses have a special category called Altoid lenses. All dried lenses on full frame cameras are all of the lenses that are below 24 millimeters. That's also why we talked about what makes a lens wide. Now, let's see which are the most common wide angle lenses out there. The most common. They'll arrange for a wide-angle lens for full frame cameras is this lens right here. There's 16 to 35. This lens is produced by Canon, Nikon, and Sony and three most popular brands that produce first party lenses out there. And it is made for full frame cameras and general two versions of these lenses gum out of these factories. The one, the first dizzy F4 version that I've got in my hands right here. This is a 16 to 30 fiv F4 for canon bodies. But there's also a F 2.8 version that's going to be a bit more expensive as we talked in the previous lesson, the combination of focal length and the aperture basically sets the price of the lens. So the 1635 is one of the most common focal ranges for wide angle lenses. Now another very common wide-angle lens that cannot be uses is the Canon 7240 millimeter lens. It's a F4 version. There's no F2 0.8 version on this one. And if you have a cannon corrupt frame body, then you might want to go with the ten to 18 millimeter. That basically translates to a 16 to 35 as a full-frame, third-party companies such as Sigma and some young also produce amazing wide-angle lenses. One of my favorite wide-angle lenses for ABC bodies is the sigma 18 to 35 millimeter. And keep in mind this is a f x1 point. 8x lens that the pricing of this lambda sigma 18 to 35, F1 billion eight is just amazing. If you have a sensor body, I would suggest this, but we're going to talk about my suggestions later. Another popular drying wide-angle lens of sigma is the 16 millimeter f 2.8. And again, sigma produces these lenses for a wide variety of camera bodies. It produces it for canon, 10k and Sony. Last but not least, some young also produces amazing quality wide angle lenses. One of my favorites is the 40 millimeters f2 0.8 version that is totally affordable and compatible with all full frame cameras. So now we know the basics of wide-angle lenses and we talked about some of the most common versions of them. But you might be overwhelmed. So let's answer the question. Which wide-angle lens should I choose? So if you have a full frame camera, you're a bit and a budget, I would totally suggests that the sam Yang 40 millimeter F2 0.8 version lens. It is a amazing wide angle lens. I've used this lands before. It has amazing picture quality. It does not have image stabilization for video, but that's one of the main reasons, is a bit cheaper. And you can also find the version that does not have autofocus, which might be much cheaper. I think you can find this lenses on Amazon for about 300 Euros, which is very cheap for a 40 millimeter full-frame wide angle lens. Now, my personal choice on wide-angle lenses, and you can see right here is the 16 to 25 millimeter F4 version. It is a first heartlands. This one is, it is cannons lands, so it matches perfectly with my body, which is a Canon full-frame, and I really enjoy the focal range of it. The fact that I can zooming to 35 and zoom out to 16, it's one of my favorite lenses and one of my most useful if you have a crop frame camera and you don't want to spend extra bucks on a full-frame lens such as this one right here, I would totally suggests the sigma 18 to 35 F1 0.8, the combination of its focal length in addition to the aperture that this lens has, is just out of this world, it is really cheap for what you're getting. I would totally invest on this land. So wide angle photography, okay, as I mentioned before, this lands right here. My wide angle lens is one of my most used lenses. I love taking pictures with this lens. It makes the pictures look way more dynamic than me ranges. It is perfect for landscapes, it is perfect for establishment thoughts. And I really appreciate street photography, actually wide angle lens street photography. Here are some examples of images that I have captured with my wide angle lenses. On video. Wide-angle lenses will not disappoint. Never. Again, they're amazing for establishment salts. And in general, if you'd like to feel extreme sports or stuff like that, vz will be your go-to lens. The only problem here is that you might want to have a filter to protect this front element of lens because you need to be close to action if you want to get some amazing songs with wide-angle lenses. So the glass might get scratched. So you might want to invest in a filter. We're going to talk about guilders in later lessons. Extreme sports photography when on the lenses are the go-to lenses. If someone's lungs. If you want to document your life or documents some of your travels, for example, you want to use a wide angle lens, is, for example, if you've logged the distance of the camera body from your face is about this right here. So little wide-angle lens. You will have your face on frame and you're gonna be able to see a lot of your surroundings. So I think this is pretty much it with wide-angle lenses. I hope you learn some things here. I'll see you in the next lesson where we're going to talk about mid ranges. Thank you very much. 4. The Mid Ranges: Hello everyone and welcome to the third installment of this gorgeous where we analyze and become experts on lenses. So we talked about the basic features of lenses on the anatomy of the lens class. The first lesson that we have, we talked about wide-angle lenses on our previous episode, and now it is time for one of my favorite types of lenses the midrange is. And so this video is going to have a really similar structure to the previous one where we analyze wide-angle lenses. We're going to start by talking about some features that make a mid-range lens a mid-range lands when talking about, which are the most common mid-range lenses, which has a master means drain sciences, which companies produce mid-range lenses. And they're gonna analyze the video performance of these lenses and the photo performance of these lands that really makes a lens a mid-range. Okay, we heard about this term a lot. So what is that makes a typical lands a mid-range as a name suggest, mid-range, middlings lenses cover a wide and broad spectrum of focal lengths. We got this, the focal range of the lens. So mid-range lenses usually tend to have a wider range. For example, 24 millimeters, just like this lands. And also a more telephoto range. For example, 105105 millimeters, which is considered to be della folder. Out of course, every focal length in between those two numbers. And other key characteristic of mid-range lenses is that they usually don't come with very low aperture numbers. So for example, the lowest arbitrarily I've seen on a mid-range lens is 2.8, so it is not that fast compared, for example, with Brian lenses that have really lower aperture. And this a broad spectrum of focal lengths. And a not that low arbiter is two of the most common key characteristics of mid-range lenses. Okay, so what are the most common mid-range lenses? Again, just like the wide angle lenses. And this depends on the type of body that you're using. If you're using a APS-C camera that has a grub factor, the most common mid-range lands that you're going to find is the 18 to 55 millimeter, which is usually the kid lands that comes with the body when you buy it. Now in contrast, full frame cameras usually come with this lands right here. The 24 to 105 is one of the most common made drains lenses out there. And it's the one that I chose to this interview right now. But really the midbrain spectrum. Where do the ABC cameras have a huge advantage on full frame cameras? And that's because of the third body lenses that are produced for ABC cameras that are midrange is actually except from the 18 to 55 and the 24 to one or five. We've got also two amazing APOC, mid-range lenses from Xamarin and sigma, the 18 to 318 to 200 millimeter lens. These are amazing focal ranges. There are huge Fogler ranges. And most of the time for beginner photographers or videographers, there will be only lands or you're going to use. So which companies make mid-range lenses? As we said in the mid-range lenses are very, very common to ship as kid lenses with bodies. So we expect the normal first party companies to produce mid-range lenses. These include cannon, OK. MC, and Sony. These are the three most common first party companies that reduced matrix lenses. But of course, third body companies will enter the ship of mid-range lenses. And we have companies as sigma tamarin that reduce amazing me drains lenses. Which drains, should I choose? Again, this depends on the type of camera body that you are using. If you're using a APS-C camera body, then you have a huge advantage in this category of lenses. Why London, del u, ABC users have a huge advantage when it comes to mid-range lenses for two main reasons. The first one is called tamarin 18300 millimeters, and the second one is called sigma 18 to 400 millimeters. As you may have realized, the focal range that these lenses cover is just out of this world. We have from 18, which translates to a 28th in full-frame, up until 300 millimeters, which is extremely telephoto. And full-frame users must be a lot of money to unlock this focal range. So these lenses are a relatively cheap, well if you see what you're getting. And also, they are probably the only lens are you going to use if you are a beginner? I strongly suggest these two lenses to ABC users. As again, they're probably the only lens that you're going to need for full-frame users, we have to basically mid-range lenses that I would suggest the 24-25, that hub right here. It's a F four aperture lens. It does not come with a faster aperture. And the 24 to 70, the 20-40 70 comes with a bit lower aperture of 2.8. But again, I would probably suggest that the 24-25, as you have that 105, which is modular photo and will produce more great compression on photographs and videos, which is going to be handy in a land that is small. Grains is performed on video. I like to say that mid ranges are the lens that is you choose when you don't know what to expect and you're going out on a shoot, for example, you're going out to shoot bikes. You don't know if you're going to have, you're going to need telephoto salts or wider salts. You might need some mid-range sites. You're going to always have a mid-range in your camera bag. Again, the mid ranges are kings of running gun photography and video. So if you want at one lens you don't know be switching lenses all the time from a wider to a more telephoto lens. Then you bring this in your camera bag, the 24-25, and you cover a really solid focal range in your videos. I also love mid-range lenses for interviews just like this one right here. I usually use this 24-25, but for the purposes of this video, I've switched it with the 1635 and I've turned it all the way to Thirty-five millimeters. So we have this small compression comes the photos. I like to think that midrange is produced the most real photographs out there. Why am I saying that? Well, VI It is said that VI everything that we look is on 22 millimeters. So when you have a mid-range that suits, for example, 24 to one or five. And we're going to have those really realistic. And I like photos, not something extra telephoto or something extra wide. In addition to that, just like there are the kings of run and gun photography on video. They are the kings of Rangan photography for photographs. They are the kings of street photography. Ok, if you're in the streets and you don't want to switch again everytime lenses from a wider to a more telephoto lens, you bring this baby with you and you're covered for the whole street photography session. Again, there, amazing if you do not know what to expect, for example, you're invited to photograph a building with the employees inside. You're going to want some landscapes odds. You're going to want some architecture thoughts, but you also gonna want this more telephoto focal length for some portraits, for example. So again, this lenses are perfect when you don't know what to expect. So again, I would say that midrange is, are perfect for people that want to travel just with one lens. You might not want to travel with five lenses in your camera bag, okay. To tell her photos, one wild lands and like three prime lenses, you just want to have one lens. This is going to be a mid-range lands. I really believe that these lenses are one of the most important category of lenses out there. So that's pretty much it when it comes to mid-range, we talked about the most common midrange is what makes a lens a mid-range lands. We talk about the functionality of mid-range lenses on photographs and video. So I hope that you have a general idea about this type of lenses, and I'll see you in the next lesson. We're gonna talk about telephoto lenses. Stay safe, goodbye. 5. The Telephotos: Hello everyone. Thank you for signing up for this fourth installment of this course. And I would actually like to congratulate you for showing up and playing full out those scores. It's really important to stay until the end of these lessons because this is really where I share my knowledge and my personal experience with these lenses. So I would really suggest to you to watch the whole video in this lesson, we're going to analyze everything about telephoto lenses. What are the most common companies that produced them, which are the most common telephoto lenses, the following lenses on videos and on photographs. Then by the end of this lesson, you get to know everything you want to need about della photos. So let's go. So what makes a lens telephoto? In order for lens to be a telephoto, it needs to have a focal length of 60 millimeters and above. So again, if the lens is more than 60 millimeters on a full frame camera, it is considered to be telephoto. Now another really important fact about telephoto lenses is that we have Brian telephoto lenses. We're going to talk about what a prime lens is on the next episode. But we have prime telephoto lenses and also telephoto lenses that cover a bigger focal range, just like this one right here. One more thing. Telephoto lenses usually don't come with very low apertures and the ones that come with low operators are really expensive. What are the most common telephoto lenses? So the telephoto lens selection, just like every other lens, really depends on the type of camera body that you have. For crop frame camera bodies, one of the most common telephoto lenses that most major first party companies, just like cannon, McKenna and Sony cell, is the 70 to 300, F4 to 5.6. It covers a huge focal range for this price, I think it's usually less than 300 bucks to buy this lens and it has a variable aperture. So once again, this aperture is a bit high, and this is a standard characteristic of telephoto lenses for full frame cameras, the most common telephoto lens is the 70 to two hundred seventy two hundred is basically a lens that every company produces. Either if these communists are first party, just like cannon naked and Sony, or third party, just like sigma and damper on the 7200, is a really, really, really common focal range for a telephoto lens, and it comes with many different types of apertures. We have a version that has a F 2.8, which is a pretty low aperture. So again, this expected to be more expensive. And it, another version of this lands that is about F4. So this is less expensive, but still you have this amazing focal range. Another very common telephoto lens is the 100 to 400 millimeters. And this lens is produced either by sigma and Cameron. This is my personal choice. So I have it right here. This is the tamarin 100 to 400 millimeter telephoto lens that I have chosen, two by sigma and damper on the third party companies also battled for another focal range of telephoto lenses, the 150 to 600 millimeters and this is a way meet your lens, okay, but of course, this focal range is absolutely massive. I think it's one of the biggest focal ranges that Has ever been recorded in a lens. And of course, down run and sigma battle for this lens. Last but not least, another very common telephoto lens and a very expensive one is the 400 millimeter F4. This is very expensive because again, this combination of this focal length and this aperture makes it a really desirable and of course expensive one. Which companies make telephoto lenses just like whites. And mid-range is we're going to have our first body companies. So the cannon, naked and Sony. And third buddy companies, which include Sigma and tamarind. Some young does not really play the game with lenses. Telephoto, should I use? Now, either you have a dropped frame body or a full-frame body. I would wildly suggested by this lens right here. It is relatively cheap or a telephoto lens, okay? It's not a 70 to 200, it is a 100 to 400 millimeter. So in America you have a full-frame bodies like me or a crop frame body. If you're looking to buy a telephoto lens, I would totally suggest you to buy this one right here. If you don't want to buy the damn run one hundred and four hundred, I would suggest you to buy the Sigma one hundred and four hundred. They have really similar qualities and they're both amazing lenses. They come in the size of a 7200, which means that they can fit in your camera bag as a normal lens and they cover a huge focal range. That can be really helpful if you're shooting outside and you don't want to cover this huge 150 to 600 millimeter lens produces. It is a variable aperture lens is not a F4 lens, but really aperture, in my opinion, does not matter that much in telephoto lenses because I'm going to ask, we're going to talk about in the video and photo aspect of these lenses. They produce amazing compression that makes the image look like you have a really low arbitrary when you don't. So how do telephoto lenses perform? In videos? We have some pros and cons here. One of the most amazing feature of least lenses, and they said before is the compression that they reduced. If you are at 400 and you sue the person in 400 millimeters, then the background is going to look creamy. It's going to look amazing. Just like you have shouted in a really low aperture. Also, telephoto lenses are considered the go-to lenses for wildlife photography. All the photographs that you see with close-ups of animals, our photograph into LA photos, telephoto lenses are also the choices of photographers and videographers for sports photography and videography under perfect if you want to isolate your subject for the surroundings or in general, if your subject is far away from you and you can't reach it with a mid-range. So a calm that telephoto south on video is that they're really hard to stabilize when you're at, for example, at 300 or 400 millimeters, hand-held is really, really hard not to have shaky video. So you might want to use it, try bird, or you might want to have building an image stabilization on your lens. So this is really telephoto video. There are amazing if you want to separate your subject, there are amazing if your subject is really far away from you for wildlife photography, for example, or for sports video. But the cons is that they're relatively heavy and they're really hard to stabilize. In photographs again, telephoto lenses, just like in video, produced this amazing compression with the background. Although you don't really have a low opportunity, street photography is really interesting with those della photos because you can produce an image literally from anything, everywhere you point your camera at, you have a new composition in contrast with wide-angle lenses, for example, that cover this same Wide Area everywhere you point your camera app. Here are some examples of some of the photos that I have taken with a telephoto lens right here. But again, one of the major concerns that the photos have on photography is that you're going to need a high shutter speed in order not to have shake on your images. And the high apertures that these lenses have usually don't make them perfect lenses for nitrogen, for example, because the combination of a high shutter speed and the high aperture will be really, really bad for the lighting off your image. Another con is that these lenses are relatively heavy, so you're going to need a camera bag to fit this with you when you go out for photography or one live photographer instance. And another con, in photography that people don't really talk about with these lenses is that they look intimidating. Usually in street photography, you don't want the subject to be aware that it is being photographed. So if you have this huge lens pointing at someone at 400 millimeters like this, usually the subject is going to notice and this will alter the structure of your photo. So I think this concludes our lesson about telephoto lenses. I hope you learned something new through this lesson and I will see you tomorrow when we're going to talk about prime lenses. Thank you very much. 6. The Primes: Hello everyone. Thank you for joining me in this final lesson of this course. I hope that you've learned some things together until this point. Today we're going to analyze prime lenses. So let's get started. What makes a Lens prime? K prime lenses are lenses that have a set focal length. This means that they don't have a focal range. For example, they're not 24 to 105. They have set focal length, for example, 24 millimeters or 50 millimeters. So this means that a prime lens can actually belonging ME category of lenses that we talked up to this point. This is why I get prime lenses for the end, or wide-angle prime lenses, mid-range blind lenses, and also telephoto grind lenses, for example. Another key characteristic of prime lenses is that they come with very high image qualities. Usually photographers actually love using prime lenses just for their image quality. Prime lenses also come with very low operators. Some of the lowest apertures and lenses are seen in prime lenses. And as we said before, this is y prime lenses are expensive. This combination of a very low aperture, in addition with the focal length of the lens makes it lends expensive. So prime lenses are expected to be more expensive than mid ranges, for example, that being said, there are some cheap options for Brian lenses and we're going to talk about them later in this video. Which are the most common prime lenses. In other categories of lenses we talked about, I could talk for hundreds and hundreds of lens diets and focal lengths and ranges. But for prime lenses, we have five lenses that are the most Gum. All of these five lenses then I'm going to name right now have a lower aperture of F1, 0.4, but you can find them in the market for a cheaper price with higher arbitrary, for example, 1.8 or 2.8. So the first one is the 24 millimeter, 1.4. Then you have a 35-millimeter, a 50 millimeter, and 85 millimeter, and a 105 millimeter. And now again, as we said in the introduction of this video, we can see that prime lenses, again cover all the spectrums of lenses there. Y prime lenses such as the 24 millimeter, there are mid-range blind lenses such as the 35 and the 50 millimeter, and more telephoto lenses, such as the 85 millimeter and the 105 millimeter. So you may have noticed that all of these lenses, these five lenses than a name right now have the same aperture. So we can expect their price to increase as their focal length increases. For example, the 105 millimeter F1 going for is going to be more expensive. A 35-millimeter if 1.4. So this one we talked about in the beginning of this lesson right here and in the beginning of the lens lesson, that the price of a lensed really depends on the combination of aperture and focal length. Which companies produce prime lenses? Well, every company produces prime lenses or k prime lenses is a market that every company wants dark. But these companies include, of course, first party companies, as we talked before. These are gallon, Megan and Sony, but also third-party companies such as tamarin, Sam, Yang, and sigma. So a prime lens, should you get? Which prime lens would I suggest you do get? Again, there are not that many selections. There are five major prime lenses. I would totally suggest you buying a 50 millimeter f 1.8 lands because it is one of the cheapest lenses that you can find actually out there. It is very cheap. It's about 200 box I think, which is a absolute bargain for the Lancet you getting its a really combat. I actually own one of these lenses but I don't have at my disposal right here I, but I only 50 millimeter if 1.8, it is really compact, is about this size and it reduces amazing image quality. And also it has a perfect low-light performance. If you have some extra box that you would like to spend and you want another prime lands, you should probably invest on a 85 millimeter F1 point for 4f ongoing aid as these lenses are the kings of portrait photography, every port photographer, I guarantee you that he has a 85 millimeter F1 Boeing for Lens prime lenses in video are actually very interesting because due to the fact that most of them don't have image stabilization building, they're a bit tricky and they can lead to shaky footage. But if you using them on a stabilizer or a gimble, the images and the videos that you can produce are just out of this world. The low opportunity of this lenses can help you smooth out the background and produce some of the most breathtaking videos you can capture. They're also really easy to balance and a remote. So if you have a gimble, usually it's pretty hard to balance. If you have a lens that when you zoom in, for example, it extends outside. So prime lenses, you can zoom in of course, on them because they have a fixed focal length. So the fact that they don't zoom-in and they have a set length makes them release to bounce on a Gimbal, so that's abroad for the video prime lenses are also pretty lightweight if you accept the 85 millimeter, for example, than the one to five millimeter, that of course they haven't the nature of telephoto lenses to be really big and heavy. All the other Brian lenses are relatively lightweight and this can be a huge broke or some videographers to that like run and gun video for example. Finally, you again to this very low aperture values that they have. Prime lenses are amazing for interviews. If you want a Boca and smooth background behind your subject when you framing an interview, you would probably want to invest in a prime glands, for example, for this interview style video that we're sitting right here, I'm using my 24 to 105 at 35 millimeters. So I could also use a 35-millimeter F1 0.4. and if I had a aperture of an F1 0.4, which is really lower than the average of that I'm using right now. I'm using a F4. You would see a really huge difference in the background. But really the category were prime lenses, so they're amazing versatility and features is photography. Most professional photographers are equipped with all of the five prime lenses that I mentioned earlier in this video. Simply because they just produced this amazing image quality, they produce way better image quality then mid ranges. But of course you sacrifice the fact that you have to carry many lenses with you and don't have, for example, all of the focal ranges in a small mid-range, they're also used very commonly in indoor environments where you know exactly where your soothing and what you're shooting. For example, if you want to bring with you a 105 millimeter f 1.4, you probably know what you are assuming. This is not a lands that you bring. For example, in run and gun photography. When you don't know what to expect, you know what to expect when you carry a prime lens that is 105 millimeters and 1.4. So that's why professional photographers use them in indoor suits, for example, where they know the lighting condition and they know the subject that we're going to shoot. But really prime lenses are the kings of portrait photography. It's one of the prime lenses that I mentioned before can be used separately in different portrait photography occasions. For example, a 35-millimeter prime lens can be used if you want to include some of the background when you're shooting a portrait of its object. But if you're using a 10, five millimeter prime lens, as we learned in this course, it is more telephoto so you can isolate the subject more. So each one of these five amazing prime lenses, the 24 millimeter to the 35-millimeter, 50 millimeter, the 85 millimeter. And we want to find millimeter can be separately used as one category of portrait photography. So that's pretty much it for prime lenses. I hope that I cleared some things out here and I made this cloud of lenses in your brain a bit more clear. So now we know that a prime lens has a fixed focal length. It does not have a vocal range, and it can be in any category of lenses. It can be wide, can be mid-range, and it can be telephoto. We also talked about the five most common prime lenses, the 24 millimeter, but 35-millimeter, that 50 millimeter, the 85 millimeter and the one of five millimeter. Lastly, we talked about the video and photo performance of these lenses. So thank you very much for us the beginning until the end of this video. Goodbye.