What is a 40mm lens best for?
Being shorter than 50mm lenses, 40mm primes perform well for street photography in tight spaces. There are quite a few 40mm primes on the market today, and for good reasons. Street photographers, documentarians, photojournalists, photo walkers, and event photographers swear by them.
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Is 18 55 IS STM a good lens?

The Canon 18-55mm STM IS is optically superb and handles very well for a mostly plastic lens. It’s a kit lens sold with many less expensive Canons, and it’s excellent. There is no reason to pay more for a lens for any APS-C Canon camera….
On APS-C at 10′ (3m) | Correction factor |
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35mm | 0.0 |
55mm | _0.5 |
What lens should I buy glasses?
You’ll need a concave lens (curves inward) if you’re nearsighted. A convex lens (curves outward) will help if you’re farsighted. If you have astigmatism, your cornea is shaped wrong, so your lenses may be more like a cylinder. Simply put, the lens is a tool you use to focus light onto your retina in the correct way.
What is the best focal length for EF-S 18-55mm STM?
35mm to 55mm at f/5.6 to f/8.0 will get you great results with the EF-S 18-55mm STM. I really like SLR Gear’s visual interactive graphs for checking out lens image quality at various focal lengths and aperture settings. SLR Gear Lab Test Results This is what a GREAT lens looks like, and below is what a CRAP lens looks like:

Do you own and use a 35mm or 50mm lens?
Do you own and use a beloved 35mm or 50mm lens? Popular photography personality Kai Wong thinks you should consider trying out the middle ground between the two. He made this 11-minute video about why he thinks 40mm is actually the best focal length you can carry if you want a do-it-all prime lens.
Is the canon 18-55mm IS STM a good zoom?
The Canon 18-55mm IS STM is a basic zoom for Canon’s 1.6x cameras. It has both Image Stabilization to eliminate the need for a tripod, and has the new STM silent autofocus motor to help with quiet, smooth autofocus while rolling DSLR video.
Is 40mm the best focal length for photography?
There’s a long-standing battle between 35mm and 50mm lenses for which deserves the top spot, but Kai believes that 40mm is actually the best focal length out there. It’s a nice middle ground between what is “kind of like a portrait lens” and something a little too wide.