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noun Photography.

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

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Origin of portrait lens

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby portrait lens

Port Phillip Bay, Port Pirie, portrait, portrait flask, portraitist, portrait lens, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, portraiture, portray, portrayal, portrayed

How to use portrait lens in a sentence

Last year it gave us a 65-millimeter lens on the 12 Pro Max, and now the 13 Pro comes with a 77-millimeter lens, which is pretty close to 85 millimeters, or the gold standard for a telephoto portrait lens.
I Tested the Apple iPhone 13 Pro. The Camera Quality Is Ridiculous.|jeremyr|September 21, 2021|Outside Online
With a true portrait lens in my pocket, it was fun to push myself to really work on this type of photography.
I Tested the Apple iPhone 13 Pro. The Camera Quality Is Ridiculous.|jeremyr|September 21, 2021|Outside Online
It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The squabble was also immortalized in this incredibly awkward family portrait.
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And he said, I know you see this crisis through a very personal lens.
The NY Police Union’s Vile War with Mayor De Blasio|Michael Tomasky|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A portrait of him was done once in which the collar point was made to sit in its proper place.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All of which makes David Freeman's portrait of Hitchcock in his final days all the more poignant.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her best-known works are portrait busts, which are numerous.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Daughter of Gustav Graf and wife of the portrait painter, Lepsius.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
They are unique; that lady there is the Du Barry—a portrait worth, alone, six thousand francs.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Any one may possess the portrait of a tragedian without exciting suspicion or comment.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
The other was the spirited portrait of Baron von Friedericks, a happy combination of cavalier and soldier in its manly strength.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement