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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


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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

The “earth-shine” on the new moon was successfully photographed in February, 1895, by Prof. Barnard at the Lick Observatory, with a 6-inch Willard portrait lens.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore

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