Portraiture..45mm f1.8 or 60mm f2.8?

I have the NX 45 1.8, the NX 60 2.8 macro and the NX 85 1.4, and I much prefer ther 45 and 85 for portraits because of the lovely quality of their bokeh and their beautiful combination of nice softness, very good sharpness and pop. The 60 macro is very sharp, but also very contrasty and has a much harder rendition than the other two. This can be fine for tough, cold, very sharp or high contrast portraits, but the other two are much more charming, flattering, airy.

The FL of the 45 works very well for portraits, and its bokeh at portrait distance is better than that of the 60 2.8 which can quickly look flat and hard at non-macro/portrait distance (light depending). Remember that all macros are optimized for macro distance in their rendition, and I find them usually inferior to fast standard or short tele lenses at longer or portrait distance. This also applies to the stellar 60 and 105 macro Nikkors I have. The NX 45 has also a very fast AF, faster than the NX 60 macro and the 85 1.4 (which has a lot of heavy glass to move). I really love the 85, but it's clumsy and heavy on my small NX500, and not such a good action-portrait lens. The 45 is much better at action shots, portraits included. It also has the most colour pop of the three, I'd say. It's a very beautiful lens. And if you get the standard 2D version (same optically as the 2D/3D), it's also cheap.

Get the 45.

Andrea