Chapter One
Portrait Lenses
It All Starts Here
Before we start, it is absolutely imperative that you stop here, go back, and read #5 in the “Five Things You Need to Know Up Front . . .” on page xiii. Once you’ve done that, you’re cleared to come back and pick up reading right here. Okay, lenses. They are not cheap! But have you ever stopped to think about why some lenses actually cost more than the camera bodies themselves? I know, right? It’s crazy. Especially since all that’s in a lens is some die-cast machine-engineered aluminum for the barrel, and then some finely ground glass, and it’s probably recycled glass at that. Interesting side note here on the origins of the word “lens”: I was surprised to learn that “lens” is not a word at all. ...
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