Digital Camera Lenses

8-15mm Fisheye Lens

• Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
• Access: General 
• Training Materials: Lens Guide
• Description: Extreme wide-angle lens
• Comments: Compatible with digital cameras; Highly pronounced fisheye distortion. Special effects lens.

14mm Ultra Wide Lens

• Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
• Access: General 
• Training Materials: Lens Guide
• Description: 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.

17mm Wide Tilt-Shift Lens

• Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
• Access: General 
• Training Materials: Lens Guide
• Description: Wide angle lens with tilt-shift 
• Comments: Compatible with 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. Allows photographers to be very close to the subject.

24mm Lens

• Location: 280 & 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.

35mm Lens

• 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.

50mm Lens

• 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.

85mm Lens

• 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.

70-200mm Lens

• Location: 280 & MacLean Media Center
• Access: General
• Training Materials: Lens Guide
• Description: 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.

100mm Lens

• 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.

10mm Fisheye Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• Training Materials: NA
• Description: Extreme wide angle lens
• Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Fisheye distortion. Produces extreme exaggeration of subject close to lens and in the center of the frame.

11-16mm Wide Angle Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• Training Materials: NA
• Description: Extreme wide angle lens
• Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Good for shooting in areas where space is limited and to fit a lot into the frame (very wide angle of view). Also good for shooting outdoors to achieve an expansive and environmental look. Exaggerates movement towards the lens.

16-28mm Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes 
• 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.

17mm Wide Tilt-Shift Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes 
• Training Materials: Manual
• Description: Wide angle lens with tilt-shift
• Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Allows control of angle of focus plane and perspective shift.

18-135mm Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• 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.

18-250mm Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• 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. Allows even more super-telephoto zoom when compared to 18-135 mm zoom.

20mm Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• 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.

20mm Lens (Animation only)

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• 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.

50-150mm Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• Training Materials: NA
• Description: 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.

135mm Lens (Animation Only)

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

150-500mm Lens

• Location: MacLean Media Center
• Access: Available to students enrolled in specific FVNMA classes
• Training Materials: NA
• Description: Telephoto to extreme-telephoto / zoom lens
• Comments: Compatible with digital cameras. Wide range of focal lengths allows flexibility in shooting. Large/bulky size. Good for dramatic close-ups and achieving a cinematic look with very shallow depth of field and subject-background separation and compression. Super-telephoto focal lengths good for shooting wildlife and subjects where the photographer must be very far away.

16-35mm Canon Lens PH

• Location: 280 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 to slightly-wide / standard angle lens
• Comments: Compatible with Canon 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.

24mm Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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. 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.

24mm Tilt-Shift Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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.

24mm Sony Lens 

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

24-70mm Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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 to slight telephoto lens
• Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Good range of focal lengths for flexible standard 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—events, environmental portraiture, small group portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, everyday shooting.

30mm Fujifilm lens PH

• Location: 280
• 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

35mm f/1.4 Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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. Very sharp with minimal distortion and excellent bokeh. 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.

35mm Tilt-Shift w/Canon Mount Lens

• Location: 280 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.

50mm Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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. Closest perspective to human eye. Excellent all around lens. Very little distortion; sharp. Good for: all around shooting and versatility, portraiture, full body and environmental portraiture, street and documentary, events.

70-200mm Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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 to extreme-telephoto lens
• Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces moderate to dramatic subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, headshots, events.

85mm Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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 more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

90mm Tilt-Shift Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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.

100mm Macro Canon Lens

• Location: 280 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: Functions as both medium telephoto and super close-up macro lens. ~5 inch minimum close focus distance.
• Comments: Compatible with Canon digital cameras. Allows more distance between photographer and subject. Produces good subject-background separation. Good for: portraiture, events.

24-70mm Sony Lens

• Location: 280 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.

35mm f/1.4 Sony Lens PH

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

35mm Sony Lens

• Location: 280 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.

50mm Macro Sony Lens

• Location: 280 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.

85mm Sony Lens

• Location: 280 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.

Zeiss Milvus 25mm f/1.4 Lens

• Location: 280 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.

Zeiss Milvus 35mm f/2 Lens

• Location: 280 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.

Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/1.4 Lens

• Location: 280 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.

45mm Phase Lens

• Location: 280 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 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.

70-200mm Sony Lens

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

90mm Macro Sony Lens PH

• Location: 280
• 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

110mm Fujifilm Lens PH

• Location: 280
• 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

150mm Phase Lens

• Location: 280 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.

XCD 30mm Hasselblad Lens

• Location: 280 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.

XCD 90 mm Hasselblad Lens

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

Zeiss Milvus 50mm Macro f/2 Lens

• Location: 280 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.

Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4 Lens

• Location: 280 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.

Zeiss Milvus 100mm f/2 Lens

• Location: 280 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.