What Is A Short Focus Lens Suitable For? What Are The Advantages Of Short Focus Lenses?

1.What is a short focus lens?

As the name implies, a short focus lens is a lens with a focal length shorter than a standard lens, and is sometimes also called a wide angle lens.

Generally speaking, a lens with a focal length of less than 50mm (inclusive) in a full-frame camera, or a lens with a focal length of less than 35mm in an APS-C format camera, can be called a short focus lens.

2.What is a short focus lens suitable for?

Landscape photography

Short focus lenses have a wide angle of view and can capture relatively wide landscapes, making them very suitable for landscape photography.

Short focus lens for landscape photography

Humanities documentary

In a compact space, short focus lenses can accommodate more scenes and also perform well in humanities documentary and street photography.

Architectural photography

A short focus lens can capture larger scenes, so it is also very suitable for photographing large buildings or interior spaces.

3.What are the advantages of short focus lenses?

Wide angle of view

The main advantage of short focus lenses is their wide angle of view. A short focus lens can capture a wide angle of view, making the picture richer.

Wide shooting angle

Deep depth of field

Compared with a telephoto lens, a short focus lens can achieve a greater depth of field at the same aperture. That is to say, when shooting with a short focus lens, both the foreground and background of the picture can remain clear.

Easy to carry

Generally speaking, short-focus lenses are very suitable for outdoor carrying and shooting due to their simple structure, relatively small size and weight.

High degree of freedom in focal length

Relatively speaking, short focus lenses have a high degree of freedom in focal length, and the composition and perspective can be easily adjusted by moving the photographer’s own position during shooting.

A short focus lens

Distortion

Images taken with a short focus lens will have a certain sense of distortion, which can be used as a feature in some cases.

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