Canon lens course. The best lenses for your Canon DSLR

Everything you need to know about Canon DSLR lenses. Learn about wide angle, standard, telephoto and specialist lenses.

4.85 (130 reviews)

Udemy

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Digital Photography

What you will learn

A great course on Canon lenses for beginners, hobbyists and enthusiast Canon DSLR photographers

Why take this course?

The best value course about Canon DSLR lenses available now.

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Do you own a Canon DSLR camera?

Are you thinking of buying a new lens?

Are you unsure about what lens to get next?

Do you just want some straight answers, not more jargon?

This course on lenses for Canon DSLR cameras is designed for you !

Imagine how great it feels to take great pictures with your camera because you did your research and bought the right lens for the job. No compromising with angles or apertures, or having to get closer or stepping back. Just having the perfect lens for the pictures you want to take....

Created for beginners, hobbyists and enthusiasts, this course on Canon DSLR lenses is the ideal course for anyone who wants to know more about the lenses available for Canon DSLR cameras, or is looking to buy a new lens, but is unsure where to get clear, balanced information.

It doesn't matter whether you own a full frame Canon camera or a crop frame Canon camera. This course covers options for both!

Beginning with a lecture about what lenses actually do, and working through Focal Length and Aperture to MTF charts, lens distortions and lens code abbreviations, this course explains everything you need to know in a straight-forward way, so that you can research your new lenses with confidence.

In this course you will see great examples of the kinds of pictures each lens type can take, look at specific lenses in detail, understand depth of field and hyperfocal distance, find out about filters and extenders and much, much more.

The author, Jeremy Bayston, has been a picture editor for national newspapers in the UK for over 25 years and brings a wealth of experience to the course. He has produced over 4 hours of specially made lectures, which go into greater detail on Prime and Zoom lenses, Specialist lenses, Third party lenses, Best lenses for each photographic style, What to watch out for when you buy a lens, and much more.

With the right lens you can take exactly to kind of pictures you want to take. That feeling of deep satisfaction of having your photos admired by your friends is almost impossible to beat...

This lecture course:  

• Has 15 exclusive videos (18 in total - over 4 hours) with written resources. 

• Helps you to understand how lenses work, so that you can make better decisions about your lens purchases. 

• Shows you what Wide angle, Standard and Telephoto lenses can do - their strengths and weaknesses. 

• This course teaches you about the lenses available for your Canon DSLR camera in an accessible way, with minimum jargon.

Each full lecture has resource notes with suggestions and, of course, if you have any questions, you can contact Jeremy through the Udemy dashboard.

You probably bought a DSLR camera for its interchangeable lens options. This course gives you the knowledge to get the right lens for the type of photography you want to do!

Content

Introduction

Welcome. What do lenses do and why are they so important?

Focal Length and Aperture - what you need to know

Other important lens factors, sharpness, contrast, chromatic aberration etc..

More important lens factors

Zoom or Prime? What is the difference? What you need to know..

Depth of Field - How can you control it...

Best lenses for each kind of photography..

The 18-55mm kit lens

50mm lens comparison

The Canon EF 300mm F2.8 IS USM lens.

Lenses for each photographic style

Lenses for each photo style pt2

Lenses and their abbreviations

Specialist lenses - Macro lenses, Fisheye lenses and Tilt/Shift lenses

Lens accessories

A professional photographers kit

A professional photographers kit pt2

Buying a lens - the warning signs and the pitfalls.

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Reviews

Mike

June 20, 2023

Very informative for me as an amateur photographer. Great explanations on wide angle to telephoto lenses and their attributes. I will now think more about what lenses to use in certain situations.

Phil

January 12, 2023

Good training. Would of liked to seen the picture examples with the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO values in relation to the individual lens used for the picture taken...but still a real good training on what lenses are available for both full frame and crop sensor, and how they work.

Jay

May 14, 2021

This course is excellent. Absolutely brilliant! The explaination is very clear and straight to the point throughout. He explains about the focal point, the Aperture, the F number, how the lens works and much more. So many of the main lenses are covered in detail. Although this course is specific to Canon DSLR, once one has finished the course, he or she should be able to translate the information when selecting lenses for a different make of DSLR cameras as the basic concept remain the same. The resource files provided are very good.

Maureen

December 13, 2020

Boring delivery, redundant and overly simplistic content (i.e. what wide angle and telephone lenses are used for ). Why include content about 2 random kit lenses. Found 70% of content useless and I am still an amateur.

Sunil

September 20, 2020

It was an excellent experience. The subject explained clearly and in detail. Looking forward to improvement in my photography. Thanks a lot Jeremy.

Debbie

August 10, 2020

As a novice, I found the instruction on lenses very helpful. I learned which alternative brands are good, and which are not, and at which mm. I think I finally understand the difference between an F-stop and focal length. I learned which lenses would be best for the type of photography I want to do ... pictures of my art, which would be a flat surface right up against a background ... so, that's important. And even though I knew better, I did rush out and buy a used EF-S 18-135mm from Ebay. But thanks to Jeremy's excellent lecture on buying used lenses, I knew just what to check for and am now confident that I bought a good, quality lens.

Ruth

August 8, 2020

I learnt a lot about lenses for my camera. Easy to understand. Been broken down into modules made it a lot easier to watch them at my own pace.

Luc

July 12, 2020

I am learning so much about camera lenses. I am a newbie at photography and am assembling my kit so I appreciate all the information I receive!

Edwina

June 29, 2020

Overall a very good course. In places it was a tad too technical for me but once I become more comfortable with my equipment I’ll go back to those sections and review them again. Bottom line is I wish I had taken this course before spending THOUSANDS of dollars on prime, zoom, telephoto and supertelephoto lenses. So does my wife!

Daniel

April 14, 2020

If you want to not only know what lenses will be best for your style and type of photography but also how they achieve the results your looking for then this is an excellent class to take. Take this class before you buy random expensive lenses, you will have a better understanding of what you are purchasing and if it will do what you want before you waste your money. Great class!

Richard

January 3, 2020

I like the detail of explanation. The coverage of types of lens was great.The information and explanations combined with different scenarios was awesome.

Arul

November 17, 2019

Very Interesting Course on Camera Lenses. Usages of the lenses and helps to choose the right kind of lens for your shots. Finding the sweet spot of the lenses are very interesting and useful.

Jim

October 10, 2019

Lots of really good information about selecting and using lenses. I would have liked to have information on some other accessories like tripods, monopods, and remote shutter releases. Overall, well pleased

Kenneth

September 9, 2019

one of the better classes that i have taken,not that the others weren,t good . It is that i have came to this point. That i needed this information . It helps fill alot blanks. i will be going back to this course a few times. I have a canon t6s i had a chance to buy a EFS 17-55 1:2.8 IS USM 77mm. and love it but want to know more about it and what it should be able to do .!!! that is when i get good at it But at age 73 i got to get it in gear !!! HA HA.

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