Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> BIRKEY, DUANE wrote: > > Most often, ultimate sharpness is not all that great for shooting > > portraits. Unless you like seeing every wrinkle, blemish or hair on > > the subjects face. But to each his own. People use Hasselblad for portraits and survive. The nice thing in my experience, is that color and contrast never hurt image quality, and when using a very mild difusion filter (so you don't see every wrinkly, blemish and hair) using contrasty lens such as Hassy or Leica offsets the contrast loss caused by the filter, maintaining the richness. Donal Philby San Diego