The quest to the perfect portrait lens;)

[yefimovich_ilia]

I swichted from rollei to hassel, and i'm looking for portrait lens, for wide i have my Hassy SWC and i love it!!:):)

 

Medium format portrait lens quest :

 

first of all i started with rollei 6003 and 180mm lens with 17mm tube, It's to big for me and the minimum focus point is very far from what

i'm looking for.

Then I bought the 120mm f/4 macro-planar and never put it a side,love it BUT sometimes it make the face's look wide like with 80mm

lens:( this is the only problem I got with this lens.

 

Well and now I switched to Hasselblad, 501C body and I need a portrait lens and i don't know maybe i shouldn't by 120mm and take

150mm instead (but i never used) and my concern is that the minimum focus point of 120mm 0.8 is not the same as 150mm 1.4mm and it

can be critical for me because i shoot a lot of Feet (i'm working on a book called "Portrait Manifest- Foot Fetish vol.2" ) and all of the

frame's kind of close-up. OOO and Planar Sonnar question... what is better ??

 

 

This is example of foot frame that i shoot:

[yefimovich_ilia]

THE Image: http://pics.livejournal.com/ilia_yefimovich/pic/0005dq91/

[richardw]

Hello Ilia,

 

how about a 150 + extension tube. the 150's are cheaper as they are more often used and therefore usual at the 2nd hand market and with a 16 or 21 ext tube, you can get quite close.

 

regards Richard

[wai_leong_lee]

The very best is the 180/4.