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 Re: Any Cheap portrait lens for Sony a7RII? | |
If you can get a good copy of the Minolta Rokkor 85mm f1.7, I highly recommend this for a portrait lens. I bought one recently from a Japan seller and it exceeded my expections. I have the 58mm f1.2 which is lovely - and useful as a portrait lens also but I think you were asking for something, maybe, that would give you some compression and reach as well?
The lens that I'm interested in for myself that I think could also be a great portrait lens - (because not everybody wants a tightly framed portrait shot at super wide fstops - is the more versatile 18-105mm f4 Sony.
Wait, wait, wait, hear me out...While I realize it's for the crop sensor camera bodies specifically, it can be used on the FF bodies in crop mode, as we know, and the price on this lens is a lot more attractive and affordable, and it gives you more focal lengths for different kinds of portraits - close, medium, and environmental wide. That f4 aperture is doable enough - and I can see how I could make some great images with this lens.
I've got plenty of other bokeh magic lenses to choose from - but, right now, I'm like you, I'm not ready to sell a kidney for some of the other options.
I think the Sony 85mm f1.8 has gotten a lot of great reviews and it's right at the $600 mark also. There's no way that I would every have a system without this prime focal length for what I do. It's a sweet spot and every system I've had, I've had an 85mm. But, every single photographer is different in what they like in their kit.
When it comes to feeling pinched when it comes to affording lenses, though, I see no shame in zooms at all. Zooms can get you the feeling that you have several focal length lenses without spending anywhere near the amount it would have costs to get them all separately. Plus, it really lightens a bag to only carry a couple of lenses.
So, those that's my opinion - which won't get you a donut or a cup of coffee but maybe these are ideas worth considering.
Peggy
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