Re: [Leica] Portraiture lens preferences

["tm" <leicar8@earthlink.net>]

Nathan:

When you use the 100mm Macro for portraiture, do you usually close it down
nearly completely or completely in order to get some depth of field, i.e.,
to guarantee that a frontal shot will create a sharp nose as well as sharp
eyes?

Terry

> I prefer precisely the two lenses you have--90mm Apo for M and 100mm Macro
for
> R. They provide the sharpest images with the best colour fidelity, and
those are
> the things I look for in a lens, regardless of the subject. If you want
the soft
> 1930s look, just put on a UV filter and smear vaseline on it...
>
> Nathan


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