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

Started Oct 24, 2015 | Questions thread
TJL LTFF
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Re: Portraiture..45mm f1.8 or 60mm f2.8?
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Andrea Georgia wrote:

Not necessarily too sharp, both the 45 and 85 can be very sharp, too, especially when stopped down a tad, and the 85 especially has an immense resolution, but I find the 60 macro to be too hard and contrasty for a general purpose portrait lens, and to my eye the bokeh is just not as nice for portrait distance as that of the other two. It has a completely different rendition from the others. But as I said already, if you like its style, hardness, it may work for you.

Andrea

I agree about the 45 and 60mm's. I don't have the 85mm, which seems to be amazing. I like the 45mm for people portraits:

and the more contrasty 60mm for wild animals:

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