{"id":312,"date":"2015-03-25T22:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:25:23","slug":"a-guide-to-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/a-guide-to-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across\u00a0a nice <a title=\"The Definitive Lens Buyer's Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.media-division.com\/the-definitive-lens-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guide to lenses<\/a>, with both verbal and pictorial descriptions, by Armand Niculescu (29 March 2011). He goes over the basic parameters of lenses, as <a title=\"Photographic terminology\" href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/photographic-terminology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&#8217;ve done<\/a>, but provides more commentary and some helpful diagrams. It&#8217;s well worth taking a look if you&#8217;re learning what some of the technical terms mean.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f\/2.8 VR II, March 2015\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s-80x120.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f\/2.8 VR II, March 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across\u00a0a nice guide to lenses, with both verbal and pictorial descriptions, by Armand Niculescu (29 March 2011). He goes over the basic parameters of lenses, as I&#8217;ve done, but provides more commentary and some helpful diagrams. It&#8217;s well worth taking a look if you&#8217;re learning what some of the technical terms mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[163,46,58,42,30],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-armand-niculescu","tag-camera-lenses","tag-nikkor-afs-70-200-2-8-vr-ii","tag-nikon","tag-photographic-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}