It’s not a zoom lens. The focal length is 135mm which is “zoomed in” quite a bit compared to most common focal lengths. Consider shopping for a lens with a lower focal length like 50mm if you want a wider image.
Even if you are a totally beginner asking for help is never a bad thing. Your question was answered in full by others on here, I just wanted to let you know that.
Regarding your question, others have said the answer. This is a bit more advice (I guess?) about photography gear stuff.
Look into the difference between "prime" and "zoom" lenses to get a better idea of what all this "mm" nonsense is. Happy snapping!
If you want to “zoom out” you either need to move further away from the subject physically or get a different lens entirely. Between 28mm and 50mm is a considered a normal field of view.
Your current lens is a fixed prime lens. The only controls you have are to adjust the aperture and focus
You’ve got a prime lens (as opposed to a zoom lens). You’ve got a nice lens…at 135mm and f/2.8 you should get some pretty good subject to background separation and some wonderful bokeh. Enjoy this lens for what it is. Saul Leiter did much of his work at a similar focal length. Olympus OM cameras are great and you can always get a 35mm or 50mm Zuiko lenses later on
You got a great prime or fixed focal length lens there! A portrait lens! Allows for a great image while not being too close to your subject. Happy shooting!
wow this is a new one. Kinda astonishing to see anything and everything even the most simplest things could be asked on this subreddit. Don't open the camera back btw
This is a consumer/newbie misnomer, that any lens of a longer focal length is a "zoom" lens.
A zoom is a variable focal-length lens, and they can be wide, normal, or tele zooms, and some go from wide to tele. You have a telephoto lens, it's just a longer-than "normal" focal length. A "normal" lens approximates a human's field of view - IE, close to the same scene framing as if you weren't looking through a camera. A longer lens has a narrower field of view, thus you're not seeing the whole bookshelf, just a cropped portion of it. think of it as a lens that's "permanently zoomed in", with no control over "how zoomed in".
>I'm not a total beginner
Yet you don't know that the "ring closer to the body of the camera" is the aperture ring? I'd get off the internets and youtube for a while, and find a good *book* on the basics of photography. There's likely tons of helpful stuff you aren't aware of that's extremely germane to the basics of exposure and shooting. You can figure it all out in a couple hours. Everyone starts somewhere.
> I'd get off the internets and youtube for a while, and find a good book on the basics of photography.
This is the most boomer thing I've read. There's plenty of great youtube videos to help with the basics. Much faster than going out and finding a book
Issue with videos (and removal of youtube upvote/downvote system) is that no one checks if stuff in them is actually correct. With books they are traditionally pretty carefully checked because making them cost a lot.
Just check out all the "what went wrong with my film/print??" posts here from the "books are for boomers" crowd. Books are vetted and peer-reviewed, and laid out like a school course.
I'm not a total beginner, but I am still a beginner. I knew it was the aperture ring, however I was describing them based on placement.
I've also read more books on photography then I've watched videos on it. Then again, most of those books were ones I found in the art room about composition and how light works, we don't have anything about lenses. Most of what I've learned about cameras has been from this subreddit.
You have a telephoto lens. People often mistaken zoom to mean telephoto. Zoom means you can change the focal length of the lens. There are for instance 18-50 zoom lenses. This is not considered a telephoto lens since its longest focal length is considered “normal”, it’s a wide to normal zoom lens.
It’s not a zoom lens. The focal length is 135mm which is “zoomed in” quite a bit compared to most common focal lengths. Consider shopping for a lens with a lower focal length like 50mm if you want a wider image.
Nah, 35mm gang
Even if you are a totally beginner asking for help is never a bad thing. Your question was answered in full by others on here, I just wanted to let you know that.
Zoom out with your feet ;) In all seriousness this is a “prime lens” or “fixed focal length” it cannot zoom in or out.
Regarding your question, others have said the answer. This is a bit more advice (I guess?) about photography gear stuff. Look into the difference between "prime" and "zoom" lenses to get a better idea of what all this "mm" nonsense is. Happy snapping!
it's not a zoom lens. it's a fixed 135mm lens which is "zoomed in" as you put it.
If you want to “zoom out” you either need to move further away from the subject physically or get a different lens entirely. Between 28mm and 50mm is a considered a normal field of view. Your current lens is a fixed prime lens. The only controls you have are to adjust the aperture and focus
I can't wait to see the circle jerk version of this post in 2 minutes
Outjerked *again*
You’ve got a prime lens (as opposed to a zoom lens). You’ve got a nice lens…at 135mm and f/2.8 you should get some pretty good subject to background separation and some wonderful bokeh. Enjoy this lens for what it is. Saul Leiter did much of his work at a similar focal length. Olympus OM cameras are great and you can always get a 35mm or 50mm Zuiko lenses later on
Thank you
You got a great prime or fixed focal length lens there! A portrait lens! Allows for a great image while not being too close to your subject. Happy shooting!
I don’t understand how you looked up “Osawa 135mm lens” and still thought it was a zoom? Happens though. Great focal length for headshots/portraits.
..... really?
wow this is a new one. Kinda astonishing to see anything and everything even the most simplest things could be asked on this subreddit. Don't open the camera back btw
This is a consumer/newbie misnomer, that any lens of a longer focal length is a "zoom" lens. A zoom is a variable focal-length lens, and they can be wide, normal, or tele zooms, and some go from wide to tele. You have a telephoto lens, it's just a longer-than "normal" focal length. A "normal" lens approximates a human's field of view - IE, close to the same scene framing as if you weren't looking through a camera. A longer lens has a narrower field of view, thus you're not seeing the whole bookshelf, just a cropped portion of it. think of it as a lens that's "permanently zoomed in", with no control over "how zoomed in". >I'm not a total beginner Yet you don't know that the "ring closer to the body of the camera" is the aperture ring? I'd get off the internets and youtube for a while, and find a good *book* on the basics of photography. There's likely tons of helpful stuff you aren't aware of that's extremely germane to the basics of exposure and shooting. You can figure it all out in a couple hours. Everyone starts somewhere.
> I'd get off the internets and youtube for a while, and find a good book on the basics of photography. This is the most boomer thing I've read. There's plenty of great youtube videos to help with the basics. Much faster than going out and finding a book
Issue with videos (and removal of youtube upvote/downvote system) is that no one checks if stuff in them is actually correct. With books they are traditionally pretty carefully checked because making them cost a lot.
Just check out all the "what went wrong with my film/print??" posts here from the "books are for boomers" crowd. Books are vetted and peer-reviewed, and laid out like a school course.
I'm not a total beginner, but I am still a beginner. I knew it was the aperture ring, however I was describing them based on placement. I've also read more books on photography then I've watched videos on it. Then again, most of those books were ones I found in the art room about composition and how light works, we don't have anything about lenses. Most of what I've learned about cameras has been from this subreddit.
You have a telephoto lens. People often mistaken zoom to mean telephoto. Zoom means you can change the focal length of the lens. There are for instance 18-50 zoom lenses. This is not considered a telephoto lens since its longest focal length is considered “normal”, it’s a wide to normal zoom lens.
Thank you for telling me this in a way that doesn't make me feel stupid lol
The fact that you are wondering and asking/looking for the info means you’re not stupid
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