Digital Camera Lenses

Media Center Equipment | General Access

(Available to all students, faculty or staff; Reserve through Patron Portal)

Media Center Canon Lenses

Canon 24mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Canon Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; 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.

Canon 35mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Canon Prime lens; Slight-wide/standard angle
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; 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.

Canon 50mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Canon Prime lens; Standard angle
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Closest perspective to the human eye. Excellent everyday and standard lens. Very little distortion; sharp. Good for all around shooting and versatility, portraiture, full body and environmental portraiture, street and documentary, events.

Zeiss 85mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: 280 Building & MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Zeiss Prime lens; Telephoto
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Canon 100mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Canon Prime lens; Telephoto
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Canon 8-15mm Fisheye Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Extreme wide-angle lens, Canon
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Highly pronounced fisheye distortion. Special effects lens.

Media Center Sony Lenses

Sony 11mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Sony Wide Angle Lens
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Sony 14mm Digital Ultra Wide Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Sony, extreme wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; 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. Allows photographers to be very close to the subject.

Sony 20mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. 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. Excellent for shooting close while still preserving a sense of the surrounding environment and setting. Good for shooting in areas where space is limited as well as outdoors for an expansive and environmental look. Exaggerates movement towards the lens.

Sony 24mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; 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.

Sony 50mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Sony Prime lens; Standard angle
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Closest perspective to the human eye. Excellent everyday and standard lens. Very little distortion; sharp. Good for all around shooting and versatility, portraiture, full body and environmental portraiture, street and documentary, events.

Sony 35mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Sony Prime lens; Slight-wide/standard angle
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; 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.

Sony 85mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Sony Prime lens; Telephoto
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Sony 100mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General 
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
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Sony 10-20mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
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Sony 18-135mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle to telephoto / zoom lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Very wide range of focal lengths, excellent versatility in covering very wide angles, standard field of view, and telephoto. Can provide for most any shooting situation from close environmental shots of subjects and outdoor environmental landscapes all the way to cinematic close-ups with strong subject-background separation.

Sony 18-200mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
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Sony 24-105mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Sony 24-105mm Zoom Lens
  • Comments: *Lens that comes standard on the Sony a7 IV Cameras (MC)

Sony 55-210mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
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Media Center Sigma Lenses

Sigma 70-200mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: Lens Guide
  • Description: Sigma Telephoto to super-telephoto zoom
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Wide range of focal lengths allows flexibility in shooting. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, headshots, events, sports.

Sigma 16-28mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Allows for flexibility in wide angles of view. Excellent for shooting close while still preserving a sense of the surrounding environment and setting. Good for shooting in areas where space is limited as well as outdoors for an expansive and environmental look. Exaggerates movement towards the lens.

Sigma 50-150mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Sigma standard to telephoto / zoom lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Versatile range from standard field of view to telephoto. Can provide for most shooting situations from a standard angle of view providing a natural look, all the way to cinematic close-ups with strong subject-background separation.

Sigma 150-600mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
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Venus 8-16mm Digital Lens (MC)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: General
  • Training Materials: NA
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Film, Video, New Media and Animation Department Equipment | Authorization Required

Venus 20mm Digital Lens [Animation only] (FVNMA)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Venus Optics Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. 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. Excellent for shooting close while still preserving a sense of the surrounding environment and setting. Good for shooting in areas where space is limited as well as outdoors for an expansive and environmental look. Exaggerates movement towards the lens.

Mitakon 135mm Digital Lens [Animation Only] (FVNMA)

  • Location: MacLean Media Center
  • Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Mitakon Zhongyi Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Ideal for indoor use and portraits with background blur / separation.

Photo Department Equipment | Authorization Required

Photo Department Digital Canon Lenses

Canon 24mm Tilt-Shift (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals 
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. 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.

Canon 35mm Tilt-Shift (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals  
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description:  Slight-wide/standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. 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.

Canon 90mm Tilt-Shift (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals  
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Allows control of angle of focus plane and perspective shift. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Canon Zeiss Milvus 100mm f/2 Lens (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras (also compatible with Nikon F-Mount). Good for close up shooting and portraiture. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Canon Zeiss Milvus 25mm f/1.4 Lens (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Wide and fast maximum aperture, good for low light shooting. 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.

Canon Zeiss Milvus 35mm f/2 Lens (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals  
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slightly-wide/ standard angle lens. Very standard focal length, often used for photojournalism and street photography.
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. 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.

Canon Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/1.4 Lens (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals 
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Wide and fast maximum aperture, good for low light shooting. Very little distortion; sharp. Good for: all around shooting and versatility, portraiture, full body and environmental portraiture, street and documentary, events.

Canon Zeiss Milvus 50mm Macro f/2 Lens (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals 
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Wide and fast maximum aperture, good for low light shooting. Close minimum focus, good for very close up shooting. Very little distortion; sharp. Good for: all around shooting and versatility, portraiture, full body and environmental portraiture, street and documentary, events.

Canon Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4 Lens (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Intro Photo Image Making, Color Concepts, Black & White, Lighting Fundamentals  
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight telephoto angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Wide and fast maximum aperture, good for low light shooting. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Photo Department Digital Sony Lenses

Sony 100-400mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes
  • Training Materials: NA
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Sony 100mm Macro (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes
  • Training Materials: NA
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Sony 16-35mm Macro (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes
  • Training Materials: NA
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Sony 24-70mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Documentary Practices, Advanced Post Production, Advanced Black & White, Studio Practice/Fashion Photo, Senior Seminar 
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle to slight-telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony digital cameras. Versatile range of focal lengths from wide, through standard, to slight telephoto. 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—events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, everyday shooting.

Sony 24mm (PH) 

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Photo department authorization
  • Training Materials: n/a
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony Alpha digital cameras.
  • Accessories available separately: n/a

Sony 35mm f/1.4 (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Photo department authorization
  • Training Materials:n/a
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony Alpha digital cameras.
  • Accessories available separately: n/a

Sony 35mm f/2.8 Pancake (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Documentary Practices, Advanced Post Production, Advanced Black & White, Studio Practice/Fashion Photo, Senior Seminar
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-wide/standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony digital cameras. 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.

Sony 50mm f/1.4 (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes:
  • Training Materials: NA
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Sony 50mm Macro (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Documentary Practices, Advanced Post Production, Advanced Black & White, Studio Practice/Fashion Photo, Senior Seminar  
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony digital cameras. Perspective closest to the human eye. Allows very close focus (~6 inch minimum focus distance). Very little distortion; sharp. Good for: all around shooting and versatility, portraiture, full body and environmental portraiture, street and documentary, events.

Sony 70-200mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Photo department authorization
  • Training Materials: n/a 
  • Description: Zoom lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony Alpha digital cameras.
  • Accessories available separately: n/a

Sony 85mm Sony (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Documentary Practices, Advanced Post Production, Advanced Black & White, Studio Practice/Fashion Photo, Senior Seminar  
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight-telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony digital cameras. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

Sony 90mm Macro (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Photo department authorization
  • Training Materials: n/a
  • Description: Telephoto lens with macro focus
  • Comments: Compatible with Sony Alpha digital cameras.
  • Accessories available separately: n/a

Photo Department Digital Fujifilm Lenses

Fujifilm 30mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: PH Staff, faculty, graduate students
  • Training Materials: n/a
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Fujifilm GFX digital cameras.
  • Accessories available separately:  n/a

Fujifilm 30mm T/S (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Hybrid Image Making Class Access Only
  • Training Materials: n/a
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Fujifilm 110mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: PH Graduate, faculty, Staff, advanced undergraduate 
  • Training Materials: n/a
  • Description: Slightly telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Fujifilm GFX digital cameras.
  • Accessories available separately: n/a

Fujifilm 110mm T/S Macro (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Hybrid Image Making Class Access Only
  • Training Materials: n/a
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Fujifilm 45-100mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
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Fujifilm 50mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
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Photo Department Digital Phase Lenses

45mm Phase Lens

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Advanced Post Production, Studio Practice/Fashion Photo, Senior Seminar
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Phase Field IQ180 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.

55mm LS Phase Lens

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Advanced Post Production, Studio Practice/Fashion Photo, Senior Seminar
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Slight wide/standard angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Phase Field IQ180 Camera PH. About 35mm equivalent focal length on a 35mm camera. Leaf shutter. 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 Phase Lens

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Available to Photo grad students or undergraduates enrolled in specific Photo classes: Advanced Post Production, Studio Practice/Fashion Photo, Senior Seminar
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Telephoto lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Phase Field IQ180 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.

Photo Department Digital Hasselblad Lenses

Hasselblad XCD 30mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: Faculty/Grad Access Only  
  • Training Materials: NA
  • Description: Wide angle lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Hasselblad X1D II Camera PH. 24mm 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.

Hasselblad XCD 90 mm (PH)

  • Location: 280 Building Media Center
  • Access: PH Graduate, faculty, Staff, advanced undergraduate 
  • Training Materials:
  • Description: Normal lens
  • Comments: Compatible with Hasselblad XCD digital cameras.
  • Accessories available separately: n/a