When a Lens Is Too Sharp
Nice piece by Michael Johnston at The Online Photographer about portrait lenses. I will admit I obsess over sharpness (and nervousness in bokeh, but that’s different issue), but this line really resonated with me: What’s a portrait but a sympathetic presentation of a person’s appearance? In 1989, I bought a used Nikkor 105 mm f/2.5 AI-s lens and it still...