Re: Best Lens


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What will be the best lens for portrait photography.

Rudi
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Pentax 85mm F1.4, simply the best.
Nah. I think a Zeiss 50mm f0.7 on an APS-C-ish sensor would work even
better.

Ok, they're a little hard to get..

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm


He said for portrait, I find the Zeiss 50mm f0.7 a little wide and a
little shallow!

Apparently when they were shooting "Barry Lyndon" with it, Kubrick had to
adjust his scenes and watch the actors movements very carefully to avoid
them moving out of the available d-o-f. Which was pretty much none at
all..

Really? Who would have thought it? ;-)


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