....at least, that's what this seller says. 330549156099
"Many folks are dishonestly adding the moniker ‘Portrait’ to the name of the lenses they’re selling to mislead folks into believing these lenses are portrait or soft focus lenses when they aren’t by any stretch of the imagination a soft focus or portrait lens. For example, some Petzval lenses are soft enough to be used as a portrait lens, some are ‘tack sharp’ and despite this, are being mis-represented as a portrait lenses."
He seems not to know why Petzvals were invented (for Daguerreotype portraits), what they were marketed and used for for 100 years, and that they are having a resurgence with portrait photographers. I wrote and tried to explain the same, but just got chewed out.
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