Q3 50mm crop portraits... anyone have sample images?

[Dr. G]

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I'm heading to an even next week and I'm debating only taking my Q3.  I haven't used it for any kind of portraiture yet.  Does anyone have any sample images taken wide open at the 50mm crop?  I'm figuring it should be the equivalent of around f/3 at portrait distance.  

[Le Chef]

Why not test it on friends and family this week and see for yourself?

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[Olaf_ZG]

Do a search for Art & Adventure on YT. This guy made many portraits with the Q2, as well as Paymannen on Instagram before he went to a tighter lens.

Not sure how much the cropped or not.

[benqui]

Just try it, it will work very good

[stuny]

This is on an original Q, wide open, from about 1.5 meters, cropped in post, plus the original.

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[stuny]

These are the same original Q, I think uncropped, though #2 may be cropped some in post:

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[Sparkassenkunde]

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I did some portraits in the last couple of months and posted them in this forum, e.g. here:

Portraits of Kathy

I would say the Q3 is capable for this kind of photography 😀

[ianforber]

Here’s a couple from a Q2, both cropped to roughly a 50mm perspective 

 

 

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[mhasman]

 Q3 operates with only ~28mm lens. So, no mater how you crop, portraits are not "50mm-like". 

[FocusDot]

4 hours ago, mhasman said:

 Q3 operates with only ~28mm lens. So, no mater how you crop, portraits are not "50mm-like". 

Except for the DOF  (if taken from the same distance you would do with 50mm lens! ) - they actually are...

[Miltz]

If you plan to take environmental portraits it’s amazing. If you want a 50mm 1.4/1.8 look you’ll be disappointed. Especially when you factor in the terrible frame lines crop mode in camera. It really makes composition harder. If you have another camera and a 50mm lens bring that. Now if you have the luxury of being about to carefully compose people like in a studio I can see that working to an extent. 

[stuny]

With these I was at quite a distance, did not use the "zoom," used spot autofocus on the model, and cropped in post.

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[clasami]

More like a 75mm crop on the Q2 @ISO5000 with Enhance/NR in LR

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[newtoleica]

Nothing to see really. They will look just like a 50mm f3 lens. Won't have quite the pop of a 50 1.4, so depends what you need.

[Olaf_ZG]

10 hours ago, stuny said:

With these I was at quite a distance, did not use the "zoom," used spot autofocus on the model, and cropped in post.

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I really enjoy your images, but those clearly appeared cropped. The latter one, with the rather clear background, becomes a snap due to the clear bg. A tighter lens would have resolved this much better.

The Q is a 28. You can crop, like with any camera. It’s marketing. Don’t be fooled, you don’t need a Q to be able to crop.

[Le Chef]

42 minutes ago, Olaf_ZG said:

You can crop, like with any camera. It’s marketing.

Of course! I'm happy cropping with my CL and my DL-109 and my borrowed M10. So what's the problem with being able to crop, except you don't like marketing?

[dancook]

The frame lines allow you to compose perfectly within a centred frame. It makes it easier to compose the angles that suit a tighter frame than 28mm which has also had distracting elements.

Alternatively Guessing and Cropping off to the side in software can create a lopsided perspective.

You can have take photos with different frame lines and when it comes to processing, software such as Lightroom will do a soft crop to match.

A practical example is that I take various 28mm photos of live music, I want some 50mm frames too. I choose to do that when taking the photo, I can see the framing and compose for it, when I download the photos at home they keep the framing. 

else I would just have a load of 28mm images and no idea which ones I intended to crop.
The feature is good for my workflow.

[Aram Langhans]

20 hours ago, Olaf_ZG said:

I really enjoy your images, but those clearly appeared cropped. The latter one, with the rather clear background, becomes a snap due to the clear bg. A tighter lens would have resolved this much better.

The Q is a 28. You can crop, like with any camera. It’s marketing. Don’t be fooled, you don’t need a Q to be able to crop.

??????

If you had not said they were cropped I would not have known, nor could anyone else I would think.  So there is more DOF than if you had used a 50 or so, but how can anyone tell that from the photo?  All you needed to do was stop the 50 down a bit and it would look the same and no one could tell unless you told them.  These are wonderful photos of a very pretty model.

 

[bobtodrick]

Yes, some need to worry less about the minutiae of specs and numbers and more about how the photo looks.

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[Dr. G]

19 hours ago, dancook said:

The frame lines allow you to compose perfectly within a centred frame. It makes it easier to compose the angles that suit a tighter frame than 28mm which has also had distracting elements.

Alternatively Guessing and Cropping off to the side in software can create a lopsided perspective.

You can have take photos with different frame lines and when it comes to processing, software such as Lightroom will do a soft crop to match.

A practical example is that I take various 28mm photos of live music, I want some 50mm frames too. I choose to do that when taking the photo, I can see the framing and compose for it, when I download the photos at home they keep the framing. 

else I would just have a load of 28mm images and no idea which ones I intended to crop.
The feature is good for my workflow.

I never paid attention to this because I usually crop toward the center, but recently had a photo that I took with a path in the center of the frame leading into the distance where there were 5 houses lined up on the horizon.  I thought a better composition was with the path on the thirds line with only three of the houses and it took me a minute to figure out why something looked off.  I'll definitely be more aware of this in the future.