{"id":3116,"date":"2021-05-10T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2022-02-20T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T13:14:53","slug":"wide-angle-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/wide-angle-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide-Angle Lenses – What They Are and How to Use Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to building up your\u00a0cinematic lens<\/a>\u00a0collection, a wide-angle lens will probably be quite high on your list. But what does a wide lens do for your filmmaking? What are the dos and don\u2019ts of wide-angle lenses? And what\u2019s a wide-angle lens vs a fish-eye lens?<\/p>\n

What is a wide-angle lens?<\/h2>\n

The technical definition of a wide-angle lens is a lens with a\u00a0focal length<\/a>\u00a0shorter than the size of your camera\u2019s sensor. That means if you\u2019re shooting with a 35mm camera, any lens with a focal length of 35mm or shorter is wide-angle. To be even more precise, when a lens has a focal length between 18 and 24mm, it is ultra-wide-angle; fish-eye lenses are specialist ultra-wide angle lenses that usually have a focal length below 18mm, often closer to 10mm, making a fish-eye a very, very wide-angle lens. The angle of view with a fish-eye lens is around 180 degrees or more, and barrel distortion\u00a0is very obvious in fish-eye lens images. Barrel distortion will make the lines in an image look as if they are bending inwards – like a barrel.<\/p>\n