Camera lenses with an angular field-of-view less than 75 degrees are classified as what?

• A. Wide Angle Lens
• B. Normal Angle Lens
• C. Telephoto Lens
• D. Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Answer: (B)

Understanding how lens categories map to angular field-of-view helps here. Lenses are grouped by how wide a scene they can capture: ultra wide and wide-angle cover broad vistas, normal-angle aims for a standard, closer-to-human perspective, and telephoto narrows the view to magnify distant details.

If the angular field-of-view is less than 75 degrees, it falls into the normal-angle category in this scheme. That range sits between the very wide views and the much tighter, telephoto views, representing a standard, middling perspective rather than an extreme wide or a highly magnified telephoto shot.

So the field-of-view criterion of under 75 degrees aligns with normal-angle lenses.