At 14:02 3.2.2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I think you know the classical answer to the question already,
>so are just "stirring the pot". :)
[...]
>I have seen good 35mm portraits (head and shoulders shots) done
>with lenses from 50mm through 300mm. In fact, 105mm through
>300mm has seen a lot of favor in recent years in glamour and
>fashion photography with photographers that use 35mm cameras.
>
>Len
>---
While I agree with you (it's after all a classical definition), a portrait
lens can be any focal length ever.
Have you seen Bill Brandt's acts? He shot them using a LF pinhole camera of
super wide angle...
I have very nice "work" portraits done with 50mm lens. I have even tight
framed head shots of people made with 42mm lens - one that often get's "too
wide for portraits" rating, which we like. There are even few (but only
few) "portraits" I made with 20mm lens (although not much flattering to the
woman I photographed, _I_ like them ;)
So it seems to me that just every lens is portrait lens in broader meaning
of the word "portrait".
But of course the 1.8/80 I think of as portrait lens is propably the most
universal (but... ;)
Frantisek
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