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A mezzogiorno, avremo cambiato la lente e completato lo scatto.

A mezzogiorno, avremo cambiato la lente e completato lo scatto.
At noon, we will have changed the lens and completed the shot.
From Lesson 215:The future perfect tense (avrò fatto, sarò andato)·Italian

Breakdown of A mezzogiorno, avremo cambiato la lente e completato lo scatto.

e
and
avere
to have
a
to / at
il mezzogiorno
noon
cambiare
to change
completare
to complete
lo scatto
the shot
la lente
the lens

Questions & Answers about A mezzogiorno, avremo cambiato la lente e completato lo scatto.

Why do we use avremo cambiato here instead of the normal future tense?
Avremo cambiato is the future perfect tense. We use it to show that the action of changing the lens will be completely finished before a specific deadline in the future (a mezzogiorno). It is formed by taking the simple future of the helper verb avere (which gives us avremo) and adding the past participle cambiato.
Why is it just completato in the second half, without another avremo?
Just like in English, Italian lets you drop the helper verb if it is exactly the same for two connected actions. Saying avremo cambiato e avremo completato is completely fine, but leaving out the second avremo is faster and sounds much more natural.
Why does the sentence use lo scatto instead of il scatto?
You must use the definite article lo instead of il for masculine singular words that start with an s followed by another consonant (like the s and c in scatto). This is an earlier rule you might remember, designed to make pronunciation smoother.
La lente ends in an -e. How do I know if it is singular or plural?
Lente is a feminine noun in the singular form, which is why it uses the article la. In Italian, nouns that end in -e in the singular change their ending to -i in the plural. If we needed to say the lenses, it would be le lenti.

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