henryp
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Thank you.B&H great too....
Maybe I misunderstand, but if not I think you're misunderstanding. A telephoto lens will let you stand further from your subject and still fill the frame. When I'm shooting a football game, I use a telephoto lens to get an image of the quarterback that fills the frame without actually wandering onto the field.Hmm, I get it. So I would want a shorter focal length range if I would want to shoot things closer up, and a longer focal range if I want to shoot something retlatively far away?
A wide angle lens lets me, for example, stand with my back to the wall and still get all of my subject in the frame without having to crop off the top or bottom. When my sister went to Italy she said she often needed the wide angle to get the whole building in front of her while pressed against the wall of the building behind her.
In effect, a tele lens is like binocs on your camera while a w/a lens is like looking through the binocs backwards.
Hope this helps.