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Used camera lenses Canada — collection of used camera lenses and bodies at Good Used Cameras British Columbia
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Lenses by Nikon
“A reference guide to Nikon lenses available at Good Used Cameras — with full profiles, specifications, and links to current inventory.”
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The Lens Is the Camera: Why Glass Comes First When Building a Camera Kit
The Lens Is the Camera: Why Glass Comes First When Building a Camera Kit
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What the 3 Most Important Numbers on Your Lens Actually Mean: Focal Length, Aperture, and Crop Factor Explained
The good news is that these numbers are not complicated once someone explains them plainly.
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Lens Coatings and Glass Quality: What Separates a Bargain Lens from a Quality Used Find
Lens Coatings and Glass Quality: What Separates a Bargain Lens from a Quality Used Find In the early days of commercial photography, lens flare was not an aesthetic choice. It was a problem. When light struck the uncoated glass surface of an early photographic lens, a significant percentage of that light bounced around inside the…
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Used vs New Lenses: Why Secondhand Glass Deserves a First Look
Used vs New Lenses: Why Secondhand Glass Deserves a First Look A photographer acquaintance once walked into a well-known camera store in Vancouver carrying a 1970s Nikon 105mm f/2.5 lens that had belonged to his father. He wanted to trade it toward a new lens of the same focal length. The salesman examined it, quoted…
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Building Your First Lens Kit: How to Start Smart, Buy with Purpose, and Avoid the Gear Trap
Building Your First Lens Kit: How to Start Smart, Buy with Purpose, and Avoid the Gear Trap There is a particular kind of photographer you encounter at camera clubs and online forums. They own seven lenses. They have spent, in aggregate, a substantial amount of money. They photograph their cat. This is not a character…
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Lens Types and Purposes.
Understanding lens types — what they are designed to do, why they exist, and which photographic situations demand them — is the foundation of making good purchasing decisions and, more immediately, good photographs. This post is that foundation.
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Maintenance and Care of Used Lenses: Keeping Your Glass in Peak Condition
Maintenance and Care of Used Lenses: Keeping Your Glass in Peak Condition A wildlife photographer who had been working in the field for thirty years was once asked what single piece of advice he would give a younger photographer about equipment. He did not talk about focal lengths or camera bodies or autofocus systems. He…
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Common Lens Mistakes Beginners Make — and How to Avoid Every One of Them
A photography instructor once described the first year of serious photography as ‘an expensive education in what not to buy.’ He was not being unkind. He was describing a pattern he had watched repeat itself in every cohort of students he had ever taught: enthusiastic beginners, armed with genuine passion and a credit card, making…
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Used Lens Buying Checklist — 10 Things to Inspect Before You Buy: What to Inspect, What to Avoid, and How to Buy With Confidence
This is the post the entire series has been building toward. Over the previous nine posts, we have covered why the lens is the foundation of a camera kit, what focal length and aperture mean in practice, which lens types serve which photography, how to build a kit with purpose rather than accumulating gear at…
