Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Especially intimate > portraits the longer focal length will be far more flattering. Basically all I do is portraits. I'm not in the same class as, say, Alan Magayne-Roshak, but generally the people whose portraits I take say they like them. My experience is that the focal length of the lens only affects how much you have to crop the frame. My benchmark portrait lens is the LTM Elmar 9cm f4, but I have found that if my distance to the subject is the same with my Q2 28mm, I get the same pose and perspective as I get with the 90mm Elmar. The whole trick is to stand where you would stand with a 90mm lens, and resist the temptation to get closer. The Q2 has enough pixels that a digital crop yields good results.