Short Lenses
Short, or wide angle lenses, are anything shorter than 50mm, for 35mm format. Common focal lengths are 35mm and 28mm. Short lenses are available down to 14mm, referred to as a fisheye.
Short lens
Term describing a wide-angle lens (a lens whose focal length is shorter than the diagonal measurement of the film used).
Short lenses also let you focus very close to your subject, and the effect this can have on the perspective in your images can be dramatic. Objects very close to the camera loom much larger than those farther in the background.
Use a short lens (35 to 50 mm) and get pretty close to the action: using a long tele will make you look like a voyeur. Smaller cameras are less intimidating than big ones.
I used a short lens to get some perspective in the shot and to see a slight gradation from the arms to the face. (If a ringflash is used from a farther distance, the entire body gets the same amount of light.
3) Use a short lens for a unique perspective, but remember the key to wide-angle success: Move in really close to the foreground in your scene! ...
Longer focal-length lenses prevent distortion that results from using a normal or short lens.
While it's not impossible to get good shots with a short lens, the luck needed to do so means you aren't likely to get many. A 105mm macro is really the minimum for productive results.
I like to shoot with a couple of Leicas with short lenses, 28mm and 50mm equivalents, from around my neck, ...
The reason we don't use retrofocus lenses on non-SLR cameras is because everything else about retrofocus designs are worse then ordinary short lenses. Retrofocus designs are much heavier with their huge front negative elements.
Alternatively, we may decide to use a short lens and get really close to our subjects, to create an intimate perspective, exaggerating the subject and making it appear larger than life, while the background becomes diminishingly small.
Even with short lenses taking sharp pictures is difficult. My advice is to use your tripod at all times and handhold only if a tripod can not be set up.
Tripods do more than you think. We prefer to buy accessories for our cameras and lenses.
Whatever lens you use, it's probably a good idea to use your tripod to steady your camera. Even with a short lens, if you're holding your camera pointed toward the sky it is easy to sway a bit and that will cause camera shake and a soft image.
A short lens as explained above will bring objects into focus that are relatively close to the camera, but it will also keep focus at greater distances between each other. A telephoto lens will be very shallow in its gamut of focus.
Whatever lens you use when taking lunar eclipse photos, it's probably a good idea to use your tripod to steady your camera. Even with a short lens, ...
If you use mostly really short lenses (58mm to 75mm), you probably really want to stick to a monorail, but otherwise you really need at least a bag bellows so the smaller field cameras are not an option.
Zone VI vs Wisner vs Canham ...
With a short lens, let's say the runner is 10′ (3m) away when you start to focus and moves 1′ (0.3m) closer while you are making the exposure. That is a 10% change in camera-to-subject distance.
I suggest a short lens and a large smile to shoot with on the street whenever possible. I would also recommend aiming for cohesive messages if only simple ones to illustrate emotions or a state of being like; joy, despair, courage, love, humor, etc.
It depends on where in the lens the diaphragm is placed. In some extra-short lens constructions and zoom lenses necessary compromises might reduce nice bokeh results despite of nearly round aperture.
 See also: Lens, Short, Camera, Photograph, Focus
  
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