Courtesy of Nikon
In photography, the lens is my eye while my eyes become the brain of the camera—the control center where the decisions about compositions and other adjustments are made. To me, the quality of the lens is more important than the amount of the pixels on my camera’s sensor. Without a decent lens, the powerful sensor in my camera won’t be able to bend the incident light rays to create an image. The quality of the lens is important enough for Canon to marry Nippon Kōgaku K.K.—the original Nikon—in 1934.
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