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Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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How much do you want to spend and what else would you like to use the lens for. The 70-200 afs-vr is an excellent portriat lens @ 70mm and gives you a great telephoto to boot but @ a price. The 60mm micro is suppose to have some of the best optics and serves as a excellent portriat lens plus gives you micro capability, cost is very resonable
 
I would like to spend around $500 for a new lens. Any suggestions?
SEMO said:
Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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Lina
http://www.lasting-memories.us
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How much do you want to spend and what else would you like to use
the lens for. The 70-200 afs-vr is an excellent portriat lens @
70mm and gives you a great telephoto to boot but @ a price. The
60mm micro is suppose to have some of the best optics and serves as
a excellent portriat lens plus gives you micro capability, cost is
very resonable
lenses @ an even more resonable price. I have the 1.4 but have
read the 1.8 is better and 100US dollars cheaper. And then there
are the dedicated defocusing lenses. Can't remember their focal
lengths but they are made to allow front and rear control of out of
focus regions. They are more expensive but not budget busters like
the 70-200. Any good primes in the moderate telelphoto realm will
probably fill your bill.
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Lina
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I am going to go out on a limb and recomend a tamron 28-200 or
28-300 I tend to think if you took a subject with you to the camera shop
and tryed this lens you would see the range that zoom can give you.

the 28-300 will be my next lens.
having said that I shood also tell you that I am not a pro
but just a snapshot kinda guy with a realy nice camera.. . .
 
For portraits, there's absolute no way I'd recommend a 28-200 or 28-300 zoom lens.

First of all, for portraits, generally, you want to blur the background to make the subject stand out. This means that you need a lens with a large aperture, such as f/2.8. Second of all, you need a lens that can actually perform at that aperture or one or two stops down from that.

Those "super zooms" do not have wide enough apertures, nor is their performance wide open suitable for portraits.

If you have to get a lens for portraits, consider an 80-200 f/2.8 zoom lens from Nikon (about $ 500 used), Tokina, Tamron, & Sigma. The range may vary slightly (i.e. starting at 70 and going out to 210), but the key is getting a nice wide aperture, typically f/2.8 to f/4, to blur the background.

Another option: The Tamron 24-135, which is a good all around lens. Not quite as big an aperture, but you will get results at around f/5.6 or 6.7 which should blur the background at the longer telephoto length.

Anthony
martino said:
I am going to go out on a limb and recomend a tamron 28-200 or
28-300 I tend to think if you took a subject with you to the camera
shop
and tryed this lens you would see the range that zoom can give you.

the 28-300 will be my next lens.
having said that I shood also tell you that I am not a pro
but just a snapshot kinda guy with a realy nice camera.. . .
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I agree with Anthony here. Those extreme zooms could be worth for travelling light, but not for portraiture work.

Of the lenses he recomends I would suggest the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 (sample bellow, 200mm, 1/30s f5.6, from a monopod, ISO 1600. Converted to B&W in PS). I've also heard that the Nikkor Micro 60 does a good job on portraits.



Best,
Dioni
You don't take a photograph, you make it (Ansel Adams)
 
Dioni, thats one of the really better portraits I see here on dpreview, however I wonder how far you had to go away from the boy: at 200mm, the effective focal length is 300mm, right? So I guess you were in the house on the other side of the street, right? :-)

regards Bernie
 
Has anyone used Sigma 105mm F2.8 Ex Macro with S2 Pro for portraits?
andy anderson said:
Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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Lina
http://www.lasting-memories.us
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--lina,
I use an 85mm (127.5mm) f 1.4 D Nikor and a 60mm (90mm) f 2.8 micro
D Nikor for portrait work. I think they are ideal. The 80-200 2.8
ED Nikor is also a great portrail lens and I use it occasionally.
Andy
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Lina
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LOL!!! No, it was not that much. I was around 2-3 m (6-10 feet) away. The pic is the whole thing, no crop. I was lucky with that one.

Thanks for the nice comments.

Best,
Dioni
You don't take a photograph, you make it (Ansel Adams)
 
Lina said:
andy anderson said:
Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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Lina
http://www.lasting-memories.us
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--lina,
I use an 85mm (127.5mm) f 1.4 D Nikor and a 60mm (90mm) f 2.8 micro
D Nikor for portrait work. I think they are ideal. The 80-200 2.8
ED Nikor is also a great portrail lens and I use it occasionally.
Andy
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Lina
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Stick with the best. If all you want is portrait lens then get a good prime. The 85 was a good recommendation, however, the 60mm micro is outstanding and in your price range. Don't, and I mean Don't, get a zoom unless you have other needs that it will meet. Zooms can not equal primes unless you are paying a premium. Also(and I know I'm going to get flamed for this) but buy nickon unless you have a lens you have used more than once and have gotten good results. I know there are good third party lenses and those who have them swear by them but if you have a limited budget the wrong choice may not be taken back. Again, look at the nikon primes and do more review on the net.
 
the 28-105 is a good sharp lens, under 500, and wide enough to do family and full length shots. You will need a really big studio to shoot full length with a 70-210. As long as you keep some distance between the subject and the background (5 or 6 feet), f8 will make it blurry enough. Many portrait shooters shoot almost everything at f8 in the studio.

If you are shooting only outside or just headshots the 70-210 will work.
 
Hi Bernie,

No flash for this one. It was shot with available light from a huge window in my back.

My flash is a Nikon SB-80DX, a very nice flash, but I only use it when it's really mandatory to, since I do not feel very comfortable with it (meaning I know almost nothing about flash photography) and my results are not very homogeneous. Anyway, there are some people in the forum which flash knowledge is great, starting by Thom Norton. If you make a search, you'll find many posts about flash photography around here.

Best,
Dioni
You don't take a photograph, you make it (Ansel Adams)
 
A very useful lens to have for general shots and portraits as well would be one of the 28-70 f2.8 lenses The long end of the range would bring you to a 35mm equivalent of about 105mm and you would have the flexibility to select a shorter length for more full length shots. Portraits don't have to always be a tight head shot. I had a 85 f1.8 lens. but found it a bit too long many times as it becomes almost 130 mm equivalent on the S2. Much too long if you are indoors. I use the Tokina 28-70 myself, but the new Tamron 28-75 f2.8 would also be a very good choice and be a terrific all around lens for most pictures. I have a few shots below taken with my 28-70. The first two shots are at f6.7 and the studio shots are at f8. With a fairly tight shot the background will blur fairly nicely at even at f5.6-6.7.








Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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Lina
http://www.lasting-memories.us
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Has anyone used this Sigma lens with S2 Pro?
b.p. said:
the 28-105 is a good sharp lens, under 500, and wide enough to do
family and full length shots. You will need a really big studio to
shoot full length with a 70-210. As long as you keep some distance
between the subject and the background (5 or 6 feet), f8 will make
it blurry enough. Many portrait shooters shoot almost everything at
f8 in the studio.

If you are shooting only outside or just headshots the 70-210 will
work.
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Lina
http://www.lasting-memories.us
 
I owned a 28-105 once, but was very disappointed with the sharpness of it. Maybe I got a bad sample, as many others have the lens and are very happy with it, and I have seen many decent pictures with it. My tokina 28-70 is very sharp once stopped down a bit. It is a bit soft at f2.8 though. Pretty decent at f4, and excellent by f4.8 and higher. The Tamron 28-75 looks like a very good choice from people's comments on the lens. I would always recommend to go to a camera store and do some test shots with the different lenses you are considering at different aperatures before making your choice. Nothing speaks better than actual images you shoot yourself.
b.p. said:
I've been thinking about buying that lens, not so much for the
extra speed but for the sharpness. Do you have any experience with
the 28-105? Is the 28-70 noticeably sharper?

Thanks,

bp
b.p. said:
Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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Lina
http://www.lasting-memories.us
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