Originally posted by pres589 Maybe this is the wrong thread to discuss, but wouldn't the longer amount of distance between minimum focus and infinity focus of the DA*55 be better for background blurring versatility vs. the focusing demarcation on the D-FA 50 1.4?
A while ago some portrait photographer made a whole blog post that 50mm are
not for portraits, but 55 is ok for portraits (55 minimum, up to 135mm). He cited things like working distance, size of bokeh blur, distortion characteristics.. the other element is that 55mm and 58mm lenses are usually optimized for portraiture, while regular 50mm lenses are optimized to be "everything" lenses. The one optimized for portraiture should be better in terms of rendering skin tones, bokeh,.. (but it might have weaknesses for some other things; it might not be great for astrophoto or macro or whatever)
So I'm not sure this new DFA* 50mm f1.4 will be
perfect for portraiture, but it will definitely be super sharp and highly corrected (we can assume this due to its big size)