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Revision as of 20:21, 7 April 2011
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| the Ross Portrait Lens, a design similar to the Petzval lens |
Nowadays portrait lens means a kind of lens that's fine for making face likenesses. Fast lenses for 35mm film cameras with focal length between 80mm and 135mm might be fine portrait makers since some distance is needed to get a face into the image frame. Lenses with smaller focal length would distort the images by giving "big nose" portraits because of short subject distance. The first portrait lens was the fast Petzval lens, invented in 1841 by Jozef Maximilián Petzval. At that time the lense's speed made it a portrait lens because the average contemporary lenses needed exposure times measured in minutes whilst the Petzval lens reduced enlightment time to 30 seconds. The modern portrait lenses are still fast lenses because modern portraiture mainly means sharp image of the subject with unsharp image background. Thus a nice bokeh might be an additional criteria to select an appropriate lens for portraiture.
35mm cameras with portrait lenses:
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| image by Siim Vahur (Image rights) | image by Voxphoto (Image rights) | image by John F Richardson (Image rights) |
