Family Portrait Lens on Leica CL

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Hello all,

I have searched our topics but I wanted to ask what is everyone's experience with lens choice doing a family (wide) portrait versus a single head shot? I have 35, 50 mm M lenses but also 23 and 18-56 TL lenses.  I also tried a 50mm TTArtisan but wasn't too happy with results. Just trying to make the wife happy 🙂 So I get a 75mm Summicron ? I'm trying to talk myself out of that !

Dave

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If you want a multiple person portrait photo, I'd start with your 35, if alot of folks the 23, or the zoom equivalent for either. 50mm starts pushing you away from the group, a 75 on a CL would be a good head shot lens, but if 75 Summicron lens would make you happy, hmmm.

[LocalHero1953]

Your 35 is a ~50mm on the CL, while your 23mm is the 35 equivalent, and I would start with that (or the 18-56 at the wide end). One can shoot a family group with a 500mm lens if here is enough space to walk back, but in practice something in the 28-35 range (full frame equivalent) is more manageable. Anything wider and you can run into distortion problems at the edges and perspective control is harder (keeping verticals vertical and horizontals horizontal).

[mokona]

for single headshot, the sigma 56mm dc f1.4 is very good !

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I use the 35mm TL for family portraits if I can get back far enough.  Single head shot I use the 60 TL or 80 R 1.4 wide open if I want bokeh