Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Joe Stephenson wrote: >Dear Andrew, >The best protrait lens is a matter if taste--yours and the subjects. I >don't feel that there are any definite rules. Just good taste.>>>>>> Hi guys, I thought I'd throw this in seeing we are talking portraiture and what lens choice. My son who is a professional photographer living in Ottawa, Canada has been using a 400 2.8 to shoot out door portraits this past summer months. The first one he did for the hell of it because the subject said they didn't want him to be too close with those lenses. So he used his 400 2.8 on a monopod and wasn't close! :) The results were great and so he started shooting his subjects when he could outdoors and has some mind blowing results. He also works wide open or very close to that, gives him great separation of subject from background as the bkgd goes completely into a mush of colour. Just thought you might like to know, that as Joe said... ""The best portrait lens is a matter if taste. I don't feel that there are any definite rules.""""" Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant