It was the curved shape of the lens that led to its name being borrowed, in the late 17th century, from the Latin name of the lentil plant, lens culinaris. In French, another word for lens is objectif ...

I'm thinking about upgrading my D80 to a D7000, and since I'd probably sell the old body as a package with its 18-135 kit lens, I would need to get a new normal-range zoom to cover that range. I need, ...

Interchangeable lens cameras, or cameras that let you swap out lenses, can unlock a lot of opportunities and new creative control for your photography. That's because different focal lengths (offering ...

Roland Denning on what exactly is meant when we say a lens is 'standard' and why that meaning may be rather more fluid than many would like to admit. This might seem a simple question, but what is a ...

Just get any AF-D lens; the D60 can't auto focus with the screw driven lenses (AF or AF-D), but can meter with them and all the camera modes are available. The Nifty Fifty (50mm f/1.8 AF-D) comes to ...