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Which is better for portrait? 45mm vs 60mm

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wpstl Senior Member • Posts: 1,251
Re: Which is better for portrait? 45mm vs 60mm
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Maykind wrote:

I love using 85mm for portraits on my SonyA7ii. Recently, I find an offer at my local for NX45mm and NX60mm.

I heard that 45mm has faster focus, but 60mm is closer to 85mm on FF.

Which do you think is better for portraits?

Both? The 60mm is a little slow to focus which is less of a problem for macro since I manually focus those but might be a bigger deal for portraits. The 60mm is quite sharp while the 45 is sharp enough wide open and has a really lovely look to the images. The 45mm isn't a typical portrait focal length being equal to 67 in 35mm terms but Sigma released an excellent 65mm f/2 for full frame so maybe it's getting more acceptable. I like the 60 for portraits but just recently decided to use the 45 more. We'll see how it goes.

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