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Pentax DA 70mm f/2.4 for portraits-older people

Started Nov 27, 2013 | Questions thread
Bob Corson Senior Member • Posts: 2,316
Re: Pentax DA 70mm f/2.4 for portraits-older people

LDBOK wrote:

Sorry, but I don't understand the obsession to get the sharpest lens possible for portraits, especially portraits of older people. These lenses are absolutely brutally honest and most older people don't appreciate that. In years passed, portrait lenses used in portrait studios were intentially designed with aberrations to make them produce a soft image. If the intention is documentary style portraiture, then the quest for sharpness is understandable.

For me at least it is because I use lenses for different things I want a sharp lens. If I want to soften a particular image I can always do that with filters etc in post processing.

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