The advantage of interchangeable lens cameras like DSLRs and mirrorless cameras is that you can change lenses for different kinds of photography. There are many different types of lenses, often with specific names. Lenses are usually characterised or grouped by their focal length. It might be more useful to use their angle of view instead, […]
Super-telephoto
An extreme telephoto lens with an effective focal length of 400mm or longer and most commonly used by sports, wildlife and press photographers. These lenses are big, heavy and expensive but provide high levels of magnification not possible with ordinary lenses. Some consumer-orientated 'bridge' and 'travel' cameras have very long zoom ranges that fit into this category, though the small size of the sensor and limited optical quality of the lenses stops them being taken seriously alongside professional cameras.