Hello Wendy, You are right in a way, however there are times when you want Sharp Portraits. Just look in a few major magazines (No not tabloids or rag mags) and you will find all kinds of Sharp Portraits. Some way too sharp by the way. (How about Bush, Colin Powell and others in Vanity Fair Magazine's War Cabinet Issue recently?OUCH, WAY TOO CLOSE and SHARP) But I like to always start out too sharp and Photoshop my way down to a comfortable softness. (so to speak) Once you have a soft image on film, you can't really sharpen it up and I personally love sharp detailed eyes in a Portrait.
A Fellow Pentaxian, Ryan Charron Wendy Beard wrote: Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 23:21:39 -0500 From: wendy beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Portrait lenses A couple of days ago there was a thread about portrait lenses and macro lenses of roughly the same focal length (around 100mm). Excuse me waffling, but it's late. Anyway, I would just like to iterate, if anyone is thinking of going into portraiture, then don't use a lens that is TOO SHARP! Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
