Favorite Portrait camera and lens combo***

[RdEoSg]

It has always been my 100mm f2 Canon on a Canon body, currently the 5D. I am really pushing myself to start using the CV 90 on my M6 though now. I shot some of my grandfather a few weekends ago. I am going to get the film processed tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have some good stuff.

 

[shg005]

Hassel 501 + Sonnar 180/4

 

[Doug]

Favorite gear for portraits... Tough because it could be multiple systems and multiple formats, but if nailed down to one, I guess what comes to mind is the Bronica RF645 and 65mm normal lens.

 

[IGMeanwell]

Any Nikon Body with my 85mm 1.8 (flower girls)

though I use my Sigma 30mm 1.4 alot for portraits (as shown in the cold weather portrait)

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Pentax MX w/SMC Pentax-M 100/2.8

Chris

 

[migtex]

Got them and all the F bodies except F6... but no beauty flower girls....sry you lucky tham I am!
Great moments!

 

[cary]

Nikon F with 105mm f2.5 Nikkor.

 

[Toby]

Pentax 6x7 with either 105/2.4 or 165/2.8, with a small extension tube for close up if needed. Absolutely buries anything else I've used

 

[Doug]

A choice choice, Toby! Add the great 200/4 as another, either old or new...

 

[tedwhite]

My best portraits were done with these cameras:

35mm:

Pentax Spotmatic: 105/2.8, 135/2.5 (both Super Takumars)

Medium Format:

Kowa Six with 85/2.8 (remarkable lens, but when the shutter releases, birds a block away take flight)
Rolleiflex 2.8E Xenotar with Maxwell screen. (Killer lens and shutter release quiet as an M3 or a GSN).

I have never tried portraits with a 35mm RF camera. But now that I've got a Canon 50/1.8 it's a thought.

 

[adep]

Canon 85/1.8, either FD or EOS. Small, light, inexpensive, sharp; nice shallow DOF @1.8