To further muddy the waters, there is another candidate: the
zoom lens. It was initially invented to be a multi-purpose device:
to cut down on weight and make you more mobile. Zooms give
you an infinite selection of focal lengths. They are complicated
and expensive but they fill in the “blanks”.
Most photography is committed between 35mm and 100mm.
But to round out the roster I have to mention the extreme lenses:
fisheyes and ultra telephotos. They are usually specialty items
but worthy of consideration once you have mastered the others.
There is a lens to fit every c