portrait lens
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- noun
- /ˈpɔrtrɪt lɛnz/
- Specialized
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objetivo para retratos
- An 85mm portrait lens is popular among photographers for its ability to create stunning headshots.
Examples
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Besides the Zeiss lenses, I’d appreciate a portrait lens like mentioned above, such as 85/1.8.
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How many times in your life have you shot something that far with a portrait lens?
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Works the best, but a 90mm portrait lens at f2 is very expensive.
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The portrait lens for a 35mm camera is 90mm in length.
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Barnard himself noted, "In the photographs made with the six-inch portrait lens, besides myriads of stars, there are shown, for the first time, the vast and wonderful cloud forms, with all their remarkable structure of lanes, holes, black gaps, and sprays of stars." 5
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In 1889, Barnard mounted a secondhand six-inch portrait lens in a rough wooden box and strapped it onto a 6.5-inch telescope.
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To capture the soft background blur typical of portraits, you need a good portrait lens.
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The photographer chose a fast portrait lens to ensure clear, well-lit images of her subject.
How Fast
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a lens used to photograph people' is directly and transparently built from 'portrait' (a depiction of a person) + 'lens' (an optical device). While technical specifics like aperture or depth of field are specialised, a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer that a 'portrait lens' is a lens intended for taking portraits.
Etymology
Portrait lens is named from two simple words: portrait (a photo of a person) and lens (the camera glass that makes the picture). These lenses have a wide opening that keeps the person sharp and makes the background soft and blurry, so the name means 'a camera lens made to take clear photos of people, often with a blurry background'.