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35mm Nikon Lenses – Analog

20-35mm Nikon Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide to slightly-wide zoom lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Good for: wide landscapes; shooting indoors and in areas where space is limited and wide field of view is required; fitting a lot into the frame such as group and event portraiture.

28mm Nikon Tilt Shift Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Allows control of angle of focus plane and perspective shift. Good for: wide landscapes; shooting indoors and in areas where space is limited and wide field of view is required; fitting a lot into the frame such as group and event portraiture.

35mm Nikon Tilt Shift Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slightly-wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Allows control of angle of focus plane and perspective shift. Very standard focal length, often used for photojournalism and street photography. Allows photographers to be close to the subject while still including the environment within the frame. Good for: events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, everyday shooting.

60mm Nikon Micro Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Good for environmental portraiture. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

80-200mm Nikon Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-to-extreme-telephoto zoom lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Allows large flexibility in focal length. Allows for dramatic subject-background separation and heavy bokeh. Produces good detail shots. Good for: portraiture, headshots, events.

105mm Nikon Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Good for traditional style portraiture. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

180mm Nikon Fisheye Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Creates fisheye style distortion.

300mm Nikon Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Intro to Image Making, Slow Photo, Color Concepts, Black & White, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Extreme telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Nikon 35mm Camera PH. Super telephoto. Good for shooting wildlife and sports and situations where the photographer must be far from the subject. High level of subject-background compression and image flattening.

Medium Format Bronica Lenses – Analog

50mm Bronica Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Bronica Camera PH. About 28mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: wide landscapes; shooting indoors and in areas where space is limited and wide field of view is required; fitting a lot into the frame such as group and event portraiture.

65mm Bronica Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slightly-wide/standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Bronica Camera PH. 35mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Very standard focal length, often used for photojournalism and street photography. Allows photographers to be close to the subject while still including the environment within the frame. Good for: events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, everyday shooting.

150mm Bronica Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Moderate telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Bronica Camera PH. Moderate telephoto. About 80mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Medium Format Hasselblad Lenses – Analog

120mm Hasselblad Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Moderate-telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Hasselblad Camera PH. About 80mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

250mm Hasselblad Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Hasselblad Camera PH. About 150mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows for dramatic subject-background separation and heavy bokeh. Produces good detail shots. Good for: portraiture, headshots.

50mm Hasselblad Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Hasselblad Camera PH. About 30mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: wide landscapes; shooting indoors and in areas where space is limited and wide field of view is required; fitting a lot into the frame such as group and event portraiture.

Medium Format Mamiya 7 Lenses – Analog

43mm Mamiya 7 Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with  Mamiya 7 Camera PH. About 22mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: wide landscapes; shooting indoors and in areas where space is limited and wide field of view is required; fitting a lot into the frame such as group and event portraiture.

65mm Mamiya 7 Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-wide/standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with  Mamiya 7 Camera PH. 35mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Very standard focal length, often used for photojournalism and street photography. Allows photographers to be close to the subject while still including the environment within the frame. Good for: events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, everyday shooting.

150mm Mamiya 7 Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Moderate telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Mamiya 7 Camera PH. About 80mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

210mm Mamiya 7 Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with  Mamiya 7 Camera PH. About 115mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Medium Format Mamiya Rz Lenses – Analog

50mm Mamiya RZ Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Mamiya RZ Camera PH. About 26mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: wide landscapes; shooting indoors and in areas where space is limited and wide field of view is required; fitting a lot into the frame such as group and event portraiture.

65mm Mamiya RZ  Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-wide/standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Mamiya RZ Camera PH. 35mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Very standard focal length, often used for photojournalism and street photography. Allows photographers to be close to the subject while still including the environment within the frame. Good for: events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, everyday shooting.

75mm Shift Mamiya RZ Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Mamiya RZ Camera PH. About 40mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows control of angle of focus plane and perspective shift. Very standard focal length, often used for photojournalism and street photography. Allows photographers to be close to the subject while still including the environment within the frame. Good for: events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, everyday shooting.

127mm Mamiya RZ Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Mamiya RZ Camera PH. About 65mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

140mm Macro Mamiya RZ Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Mamiya RZ Camera PH. 75mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

180mm Mamiya RZ Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Medium Format, Advanced Black and White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Mamiya RZ Camera PH. About 100mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Large Format 4×5 Cambo Lenses – Analog

65mm Cambo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Very wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Cambo Camera PH. About 18mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: landscape, architecture.

90mm Cambo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Cambo Camera PH. About 26mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: landscape, architecture.

180mm Cambo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Cambo Camera PH. About 50mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good all around focal length. Allows photographers to be close to the subject while still including the environment within the frame. Good for: events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, architecture.

210mm Cambo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Cambo Camera PH. About 60mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, documentary.

Large Format 4×5 Toyo Lenses – Analog

65mm Toyo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Very wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Toyo Camera PH and 4×5 Toyo Field Camera PH. About 18mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: landscape, architecture.

90mm Toyo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Toyo Camera PH and 4×5 Toyo Field Camera PH. About 26mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: landscape, architecture.

150mm Toyo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Toyo Camera PH and 4×5 Toyo Field Camera PH. About 43mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: landscape, environmental portraiture; documentary, architecture.

210mm Toyo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Toyo Camera PH and 4×5 Toyo Field Camera PH. About 60mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: portraiture.

240mm Toyo Lens PH

  • Location: 280 Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergrad students enrolled in specific Photo classes:  Slow Photo, Large Format, Advanced Black & White
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with 4×5 Toyo Camera PH and 4×5 Toyo Field Camera PH. About 70mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Good for: portraiture.