What's an all-round lens and why should you choose one?

An all-round lens is a versatile lens, as the name suggest. This type of lenses have a variable focal length. With the focal length, you can decide how close you bring your subject. The smaller the focal length, the more zoomed out the images is. A larger focal length makes sure you can bring the image closer. With an all-round lens, you can go both ways by zooming. This way, you don't have to bring multiple lenses when you take photos.

There are different types of all-round lenses for mirrorless and SLR cameras. The variability in focal length varies a lot. There are lenses with a focal length of 16-300mm and those with 70-200mm. The 18-55mm lens is regarded as a standard beginner zoom lens. With an 18-135mm lens, you have a bigger range, so you don't have to change your lens often.

With an all-round lens, you can take photos of all sorts of subjects. This makes this lens very useful. If you choose a 24-70mm lens, you can take photos of wide landscapes and nice portraits. With an 18-200mm all-round lens, you'll have a wide image angle and a large zoom range. This allows you to take photos of your surroundings and far-away details.

Choose an all-round lens when you want to use 1 lens for many different types of photography. In addition, you can choose this lens because it's easy to take with you. Note: a lightweight all-round lens with a large zoom range loses some quality in the glass. The photos you take with these lenses lose some quality. Professional all-round lenses are often made of quality glass, which makes them very good, but also very expensive and heavy.