Portrait lenses prime vs zoom?
Scotty wrote: Hands down, 200 f/2. Eitiher Canon version, or Nikon.
It destroys anything else.
Nah that lens is horrible. I took this picture with it and it turned out so bad:
But there are exceptions to anything, and if you know your gear and how to manipulate DoF you can manage good portraits with a lot of different lenses. This is a shot I took at f/4, but if I just saw this image and the background blur, it wouldn't be hard to convince me it was more like f/2.8:
That's because a couple years back when I shot this, my goal was to see how much I could manipulate the DoF using focal length and distance.
Of course there are lenses that are phenomenal for portraits, I'm not arguing against that. I'm just saying before you choose a lens for portraits, learn what you can do to make the best possible portraits with the glass you have. Then when you get a really great portrait lens, the stuff you'll be able to do with it will be pretty amazing.
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