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portrait lens

American  

noun

Photography.
  1. a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.


Etymology

Origin of portrait lens

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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Accompanying this announcement are two new Fujinon lenses: the $999.95 XF 56mm f/1.2 fast-aperture portrait lens and the $2,499.95 medium format GF 20–35mm f/4 ultrawide-angle zoom.

From The Verge • Sep. 8, 2022

But your pictures that go beyond 3x zoom will be much sharper than before, and it should make for a better portrait lens.

From The Verge • Sep. 15, 2021

The edges of the photo are blurred, suggesting there wasn’t time to swap out a portrait lens for a landscape lens.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2018

With it I got a portrait lens and a boxed roll of 120 film from 1953.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2015

A method was then referred to of making a rapid portrait lens cover a very large angle by pivoting at its optical center and traversing the plate in the manner of the pantoscopic camera.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

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