Zoom lens


the lazy man’s dolly or tracking shot. used effectively only in cases where speed is needed to grab the audiences’ attention.
“we’re losing light. let’s use a zoom lens instead of going through the difficulties of pre-planning and executing a superior tracking shot.”
a zoom lens is a lens on a camera (still and video both) to get a closer shot of the subject. there are lenses that have both optical zoom and digital zoom capabilities (optical zoom being the better of the two)
“i have a kodak camera with a 10x optical zoom lens”

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