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Top portrait lens

Started Jan 5, 2017 | Polls thread
Fog Maker Senior Member • Posts: 2,733
Re: Top portrait lens
  1. diness wrote:

Interesting results! Not quite what I had predicted, but close. I knew the 70-200 f2.8 would do well because of the versitility, so I am very surprised that the 135mm f2 got more votes! I guess it just goes to show you how good that lens is. I thought the 85mm f1.2 might get more votes than the 135 because of the greater flexibility of the focal length, but the 135mm f2L takes the cake for this one I guess!

That lens is on my wish list for sure

Prople tend to vote on the lenses they own. And since 135 mm is both cheap and excellent, the poll

may reflect that fact.

Personally I prefer the 85mm 1.2 Il

and find it to be much more versatile due

to its focal length, as you mentioned

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