New article: Large format lenses for portraits

[Mark Barendt]

Agreed, but putting it on the reference page makes it a bit of a primer for someone looking for introductory knowledge about portrait lenses for large format. While it's an interesting sampling of whatever lenses were at hand, only one, the Heliar, was meant as a portrait lens.

The others were general-use or meant for something completely different, like the Ronar and Artar. Those two process lenses fall far outside what is usually thought of as a portrait lens, (to dark, too sharp). Which isn't to say one can't use them as portrait lenses, but then, what lens can't you use for portraits? The Ronar seems to get the highest praise of all, ("Portraits shot with this lens feature an intergalactic gorgeousness... with a butter-smooth transition from sharp to unsharp areas, divine bokeh at all apertures, yummy tonality, and colors better than in real life...") But it would be near my last choice for traditional portraiture. So the article describes more what the author thinks portraiture should be, and less about what in the traditional sense makes a good portrait lens.

So do the research, write, and submit an article that presents your point of view so that people looking for a primer can have two views.

[Mark Sawyer]

So do the research, write, and submit an article that presents your point of view so that people looking for a primer can have two views.

Is it not allowable if I post them here in the thread on the article so people can have two (or more) views?

[Mark Barendt]

Is it not allowable if I post them here in the thread on the article so people can have two (or more) views?

I don't know why not.

What I was suggesting was that you could probably get your views onto the reference page as a primary source rather than as a comment.