I am not really a portrait taker, but my philosophy is that you can
always soften an image, but impossible to add detail.
I would think that the focal length for the kind of portrait you
want, the ability to adjust depth of field by opening up the
aperture, and a beautiful bokeh would be more important
considerations, especially with head and shoulder shots.
Certainly Leica became famous for environmental portraits with
incredibly sharp 35mm and 50mm/F2 Summicrons. But even for closer
shots with longer lenses portraits of men tend to be sharp and women
tend to be soft. Post processing is not everything, but it is a big
part of it.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 16, 2005, at 11:29 AM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Wonder what people like for this application with or without double
> duty with digital body. Can a lens actually be too sharp for this
> application?
> Mike
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