[edit] Lens mounts
Main article: Lens mount
Many Single-lens reflex cameras, and some rangefinder cameras have detachable lenses. A few other types do as well, notably the Mamiya TLR cameras.
Simpler lens mountsEdit
The early camera system lens bayonets were just facilities for making lens exchange faster than possible with screw mounts.
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Older lens mounts made by Pentax.
Buffer
In a digital camera, the RAM that is used to temporarily hold images while they are being written to the storage card.
Unfortunately the lens mounts used by the two systems are completely incompatible.
(Available for many MF and AF lens mounts)
Vivitar 500/8 - it's cheap, but you usually get what you pay for... (available in several common lens mounts) ...
Avoid Leverage: The weakest and most expensive part of your camera bag is where your long lens mounts to your camera. You can ruin your two most expensive pieces of equipment if there is a torque on that joint.
But a lens mounts sideways on the King Cobra, just as it does for the Wimberley Sidekick.
Both extension tubes and bellows were more popular among close-up shooters back in the era before autofocus 35mm and digital SLRs with electronic contacts in their lens mounts dominated the market.
They are fitted with screw thread or bayonet mounts to suit various lens mounts. One of the necessary steps for Macro Photography is to move the lens away from the focal plane to allow closer focusing. Extension tubes are used for this purpose.
IR setting
A mark usually in red, found on many camera lens mounts. It indicates the focus change required for infrared photography.
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Metal tubes used to obtain the additional separation between lens and film for close-up photography. They are fitted with screw thread or bayonet mounts to suit various lens mounts.
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