Camera Lenses

At Adorama, you can explore a vast selection of camera lenses designed to enhance your photography and help you capture the perfect shot. Whether you're a professional or an enthusiast, finding the right photography lens is essential to achieving your creative vision. Our selection includes prime lenses, zoom lenses, macro lenses, and specialty lenses from top brands like Canon, Nikon, Sony, Tamron, and Sigma. When you shop camera lenses at Adorama, you’ll discover options suited for every type of photography, including landscape, portrait, wildlife, and sports. Wide-angle lenses are perfect for capturing expansive scenes, while telephoto lenses let you focus on distant subjects with incredible precision. Macro lenses provide stunning detail for close-up shots, and tilt-shift lenses allow for greater creative control in architecture and product photography. Our range of photography lenses includes various focal lengths and aperture settings to meet the needs of every photographer. Whether you're using a DSLR or a mirrorless camera, we have the right camera lenses to help you take your work to the next level. Browse Adorama's collection of high-performance lenses to find the perfect match for your camera and shooting style, ensuring you always have the right tools for the job.

Lenses for Every Format

Whether you shoot with a full-frame DSLR, a mirrorless camera, a medium format camera, or another format, Adorama carries a wide selection of compatible camera lenses from top brands like Canon, Nikon, Rokinon, Tamron, Sigma, and Sony. Filter your search by brand, lens mount, lens format, focal length, and more to quickly and easily find the perfect lens for your needs. Check out any lens for an opportunity to read reviews from verified buyers, explore product specifications, and compare to other similar camera lenses.

Adapters and Special Effect Lenses

Explore our adapters to give your old DSLR lenses new life on your mirrorless camera or make use of your favorite lenses regardless of lens mount or brand. Check out popular special effect lenses for a chance to explore unique and compelling creative techniques.

Are Camera Lenses Universal?

Camera lenses are not universal. In most cases, the shape of the lens mount (the part of the lens that connects to the camera body) is specific to each camera brand. If you want to use one brand’s lens with a different brand’s camera body, you’ll usually need a lens-mount adapter.

Some brands even offer multiple types of lens mounts for different camera series. That’s why it’s so important to double-check compatibility before investing in new lenses or switching to a new camera body.

Do All Lenses Fit All Cameras?

All lenses do not fit all cameras. A camera’s lens needs to have the right lens mount in order to fit and function correctly. Different types of cameras, like mirrorless cameras vs DSLR cameras, feature different physical technology, so they also have different lens tolerances and requirements.

Just because a lens physically fits on a camera doesn’t mean you’ll have access to the full range of features. For example, you can attach a vintage analog lens to a DSLR camera body, but it won’t communicate electronically with your camera.

What are the 4 Types of Camera Lens?

Common camera lens types include standard prime, zoom, wide angle, and telephoto. Standard prime lenses have fixed focal lengths like 35mm or 50mm. Wide angle lenses range from 16mm to 22mm. Telephoto lenses reach from 200mm to 1000mm. Zoom lenses can offer any combination of focal lengths.

The list of other specialty lenses includes:

There are many other types of specialty lenses. Each one offers its own benefits and limitations depending on your subject and environment.

What Camera Lenses are Best for What Use?

Choosing the right camera lens is all about how close you can get to your subject, how much available light you have, and how much you want the subject to fill the frame. To photograph landscapes and architecture, a wide-angle lens is best. Nature photography benefits from a telephoto lens.

For dimmer environments, you’ll need wide maximum apertures like f/1.8 or f/2, which will deliver plenty of light to the sensor. Portrait photography also benefits from wide apertures.

How to Clean Camera Lenses Properly

Cleaning your camera lens is easy and requires minimal equipment. To clean the front and rear lens element, use a puff of air from a blower to knock off dust and debris. Then wipe with a microfiber lens cloth to remove smudges and water droplets. Avoid using pressure with a lens cloth or you may scratch the lens.

If a dry lens cloth won’t cut it, look for pre-moistened lens cloths for a lens-safe option. Try to clean your lens regularly to keep dust and dirt from building up.

Shop Used Lenses to Save Money

Hoping to save a bit of money while still taking advantage of quality lenses? Or maybe you’re looking for something vintage? Visit our used department to view our inventory of high quality, carefully rated lenses. We review each used lens for physical defects and operational conditions to help ensure you’re getting exactly what you expect from your purchase.