Originally posted by MarkJerling Nice one!
Thanks, Mark. I read in one of the reviews on this particular older lens that although it makes a good portrait lens, it might be best to shoot it at wide open because it's TOO SHARP and will show any and all skin flaws on the subject! Amazing "problem,' eh? Too sharp! Imagine that!
I have read the same thing about the FA-50mm f:2.8 and FA-100mm f:2.8 macros. Too sharp for portraiture or wedding photos. In the "old days," we'd take crumpled up cellophane from a cigarette pack and use it as a diffuser between the enlarger lens and photo paper. It worked wonderfully, giving the portrait a very "dreamy, Hollywood starlet" effect.