On Mon, April 6, 2009 15:29, Bob wrote: > One thing about macro lenses, they are usually tack sharp. This could > be less than a good thing for a portrait lens. Softness is easy to fake. Unless you want to go for a variable softness lens or something fancy, it seems to make sense to me to use a "good" lens and then muck it up as needed later. Gives you more options. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info