If you have plenty of film to spare and a few lenses in the camera bag or photo vest, you can always try out various angles using the different focal lengths available. Like these photos below of a lion, which is the monument that adorns Malaysia's popular Sunway Pyramid shopping mall. Part of the monument's lion head against the sky (200mm) More view of the lion, now shot at 35mm focal length You can now see the entrance to the shopping mall (28mm)   So far, the focus was on what type of lenses to use for most subjects. What about sports? Although any focal length can be used, from a 15mm full-frame fish-eye to a 1200mm super telephoto, a 75-300mm or a 100-300mm zoom lens will do fine for most situations. A 300mm focal length is the minimum for sporting events like soccer, hockey or rugby. Of course, you can use an 80-200mm or 70-200mm zooms or a single focal length 135mm or 200mm lenses but they don't have the reach to get a good shot of the players for a reasonable image size in the 24x36mm format of the 35mm frame. Unless you are a professional photographer and have press accreditation to major events that allows one to caputre a closer view of an action scene, anything less than a 300mm focal length is not enough. This is how a 300mm angle looked like for a rugby match This angle was captured via a 400mm lens with Extender 2x Shot with a 300mm and 2x Extender. Note the halo effect of backlighting   << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 .