William Robb wrote:
I recall posting about this just after I got my first 77. I thought it was an amazing lens for general photography, but I absolutely hated it for portraiture. After looking at many pictures that I shot with it, I decided that what I didn't like was, for lack of clearer terminology, it had too much microcontrast, and was just too damned sharp.
Interestingly enough, yesterday I shot a couple of Galia's portraits with FA 31 Ltd at f/3.5 from distance of 2 meters or so. I had to dial -17 of clarity because pictures were too sharp. Notably, K-7 focused extremely precisely in rather low light of just two 60W tungsten lamps.
Mind you, at -17 clarity there is no post-processing soft effect whatsoever. Pictures look very sharp even then.
The 31 shares a lot of similarities with the 77, high sharpness, lots of contrast and excellent out of focus rendering.
Yes, when I started with FA limited, I often said that the lenses compensated nicely for lack of my skill... They probably do so today as well.
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