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The 85L II is pure indulgence

Started Jan 18, 2014 | User reviews thread
keithinmelbourne
OP keithinmelbourne Senior Member • Posts: 1,026
Re: The 85L II is pure indulgence

Scott Larson wrote:

draculr wrote:

The 85L is better when shooting at f1.2 though

Which I have never found a need for. I find f1.4-r1.8 risky except for carefully posed shots.

Yes, I've seen lots of photos with the subject's nose out of focus. I'm not really into that.

What Scott? Not even full length portraits? The 85L's ability at middle distances can create some very fetching, 3D-like, images. I agree that f1.2 for head shots has a limited value, but even if you stop the 85L down to f2 or f2.8, its rendering is still quite distinctive.

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