Welche Kamera und welches Objektiv?

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“Nahe” portraits to arm length make smartphones, so you don’t need/purchase system cameras anymore or that only professionals with system cameras can do more than AI smartphones.

“Portraits” usually take place in the range of 1.5 meters (half close) to 3 meters or at 6 to 9 meters if you want to use the compression and insulation for the motif.

At a distance

• 50cm > 60 Image angle gives by 28mm focal length small image cross the image field 40x60cm
• 75cm > 45° Image angle gives focal length by 45mm small image cross the image field 40x60cm (also known as NORMALBRENNWEITE for stand image). Around 65-75cm is usually the arm length of adults at Slefies
• 100cm > 34° Image angle gives by 60mm focal length small image cross the image field 40x60cm (“Normal focal length” in cinema film)
• 150cm > 23° Image angle gives 90mm focal length for small picture cross image field 40x60cm
• 200cm > 17° Image angle gives 120mm focal length small picture cross image field 40x60cm
• 300cm > 12° Image angle gives 180mm focal length small picture cross image field 40x60cm
• 400cm > 9° Image angle gives 240m focal length small image cross the image field 40x60cm
• 600cm > 5.5° Image angle gives 360 focal length small image cross image field 40x60cm

The “Sweet Spot” for portrait is in the range from 35° to 10° Horizonal or in small image from about 60 to 200mm with the focus of 75-150mm. There have been telezooms of 70 to 150 or 200mm for 60 years. Bzw for fixed focal lengths are 75mm, 85, 100 and 135mm for 70 years the small image standards. For APS C, this would be from 40 to 135mm and at mFT of 30-100mm.

Portrait photography is a craft first, one must understand how people “see” or what the brain perceives as unconscious information and portraits must not be “sharf” otherwise that images for “dermatologist congresses”. Portrait is mostly about a “Beautyshoot”. At the beauty shoot only the area around the eyes is sharp/high resolution already the nose tip should be something soft. Since 2012, the top class DSLM system cameras have been doing quite well in automatic mode. As a decision-making aid, you must specify which eye should become sharp or whether both should be sharp.

Fore eye sharp then the nose tip becomes sharp, the ears are sharp

Back eye sharp then the nose tip becomes sharp, the ears sharp

Both eyes are sharply blinded to the point of the nose and the ears are sharp.

mFT top-class cameras after 2015 can focusbraketing and you can then put the sharpness in the postproze exactly where you want to have it. Canon DSLR of the professional class (5DIV upwards) after 2016 can store 2 focus zones with Dual Pixel Raw and you can still move the focus point in the post process and you can modify the Bokeh partiel. That is not as powerful as mFT focus fields that store up to 80 focus points (for Olympus OM, M1DII/III/x and M5DIII, this goes with IS optics without tripod)

Portrait photography has principles/rules but it is often necessary to leave rules to the left or to work consciously against it in order to bring “art” to the craftsmanship, otherwise this will quickly become “passimages”. For good/saleable portrait images, there are simple recipes (tricks) that you get explained in the first year of teaching and have to implement yourself. The “camera” is usually absolutely no matter what the optics are important

“BESTE” image quality is a question of the Knipser who always want the BESTE. Photographing is like cooking. You can buy the best cooker, the best pots the best ingredients and the best cookbook in the end someone has to create what edible or at the expense a 3 star menu has to come out and no McDoanalds. For 10 years, smartphone manufacturers have been working on portrait automation and from 2015, their “Trefferate” has always been better despite the mistakes of the Knipser and in a few years, the Knipser will only use smartphones because everything goes at the touch of a button and “wipe” of the monitor. With “normal cameras” you have to have and work Know How. Probably, in a few years the camera manufacturers will have to buy the software when they need to buy smart phones in order to be able to sell even cameras in large numbers.

The XF 16-80 OIS has been extra video optimized (if not as consistent as the new XF 18-120 PZ, but Fuji also builds Cine Zooms). But as long as you look at the pictures only on monitors, you cannot translate the possible qualities of the cameras/optics.

Olympus has better video image quality due to the small sensor and also allows faster swivels or zoom rides. In addition, IS and Inkamerastabi even smoothly iron Run&Gun in video. At the T30 you have to buy an active gimball.

The crisp point is both camera systems have advantages and disadvantages and both systems are aimed at professionals who want full image control, but can also use Knipser who want to have everything in full automatic system.