And a useful review of portrait lenses.
They use special portrait lenses and other devices to eliminate some of the descriptive detail in their pictures.
In 1840, he designed his famous portrait lens.
From the invention of photography in the 19th century, images have been captured using standard optical telescopes including telescope objectives adapted as early portrait lenses.
He first used portrait lenses with apertures varying from to 8 inches.
The Petzval Portrait was the dominant portrait lens for nearly a century.
For more formal portraits, however, he used an 85mm portrait lens and Kodachrome film.
It is one of the classic soft-focus "portrait lenses".
Canon calls it their "definitive portraiture lens", and it is often considered to be one of the best portrait lenses ever made.
As such, it is appropriate for use as a portrait lens.