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Samsung 16-50mm F2-2.8 ED OSS worth buying for portraits?

Started Jan 4, 2015 | Questions thread
OP cyberpi1 Contributing Member • Posts: 504
Re: Samsung 16-50mm F2-2.8 ED OSS worth buying for portraits?

Usee wrote:

cyberpi1 wrote:

Hello!

I'm going to buy Samsung 16-50mm F2-2.8 ED OSS and will use it for portraits mostly on my NX30. Could anybody share some portraits made with this lens (35-50 mm wide open)? Any thoughts about this lenses, is it good choice for portraits or not?

I would chose the 50-150mm for portraits instead, because it has a (to my taste) better bokeh, and it is sharp across the whole frame, even wide open (beside of the better suited focal range)...

I totally agree, 50-150mm is really awesome, but it require a lot space to use it. Unfortunately, usually I don't have enough space to shoot with lenses longer than 85mm.

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