All about wide-angle lenses

What is a wide-angle lens?

A wide-angle lens is a lens with a short focal length and can capture many details in a single shot thanks to this wide angle of view. This lens can show more of the environment in a single image. This is due to the short focal lengths that wide-angle lenses have. The focal length is decisive in the technical story about how long the distance between the sensor and the lens is, and how wide the angle of view becomes. The focal length is expressed in millimetres and the angle of view in degrees. In addition, this lens is ideal for clearly depicting the difference between the size of an object in the foreground and background. This type of lens is highly suitable for use in architectural, landscape and interior photography.

Why a wide-angle lens?

A wide-angle lens is the best choice if you want to get started with wide photos. The wide-angle lenses are known for capturing entire areas, vast landscapes or just that one imposing building in your home town. Due to the short focal length of the wide-angle lenses, you always have the wide field of view at your disposal. This ensures you can capture a lot, and capture your total view of your footage. When you use a wide-angle lens with which you can zoom, you can of course use the lens for more types of photography.

Which wide-angle lens do you choose?

In the extensive range of focal lengths and angles of view, we will help you discover which wide-angle lens is best in your situation. First of all, if you want to find out if it is a wide-angle lens, you can take 10mm and 35mm as a guide if logical distances are used. The trade-off you have to make is whether you take a prime lens or a zoom lens with the possibility of wide-angle images. With the zoom lenses it will still be possible to also take zoomed-in images.

What brand do you choose?

Do you want a particular brand? We have various top brands:

Samyang | Sigma | Nikon | Tamron | Sony | Canon