All Shawn McCully wanted was a lens for his digital single-lens reflex camera. Little did he know, he was searching for the holy grail of amateur photography — and hoping to do it on the cheap. “I ...

The lens is the most important part of your camera. It controls everything about the light that hits the sensor short of the length of the shutter speed. It is much better to put a great lens on a ...

Zeiss has just announced the latest addition to its Otus ML lens family with the new Zeiss Otus ML 1.4/35. Designed for precise creative expression, this manual-focus lens brings Zeiss' renowned ...

"Wait...what? An f/1.8? That's incredible! My Canon lenses start at f/3.5 at the best! Hmm... I wonder if there’s a way to use this manual lens on my DSLR..." I had ...

I really want an 85mm f/1.4 AF lens. I can't afford an 85mm f/1.4 AF lens, but I can afford a MF one. I want to use it for concert photography, which I've recently got hooked on (I'm currently using a ...

The rise of full-frame mirrorless cameras, such as the Sony A series, has seen a commensurate explosion in the use of third party manual focus lenses via an adaptor on the camera. So it was with some ...

If you’re an aspiring film maker hoping to be the next [J.J. Abram] with a mild (severe?) obsession with lens flares, then this Instructable is for you! Modern camera lenses are designed to prevent ...

Just get any AF-D lens; the D60 can't auto focus with the screw driven lenses (AF or AF-D), but can meter with them and all the camera modes are available. The Nifty Fifty (50mm f/1.8 AF-D) comes to ...

[Guy] wrote in to share this motorized camera lens project he recently finished. He really loved the zoom lens, but since both zoom and focus are manually controlled, he sometimes had trouble getting ...

After announcing a $69 50mm f/2 mirrorless lens six weeks ago, TTArtisan is kicking off fall with a new $55 25mm f/2 lens. This budget-friendly, all-manual prime is available for a wide range of ...