Soft focus lens
A lens, uncorrected for spherical aberrations, used to produce a soft focus effect.
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Soft focus lenses introduce spherical aberration deliberately into the optical formula for an ethereal effect considered pleasing, and flattering to subjects with less than perfect complexions.
What is a Soft Focus Lens
Figure 1: Normal Single Element Lens
To understand what a soft focus effect is, it is best to start by understanding the difference between a regular lens and a soft focus lens.
Lighting outdoors is as nice as lighting indoors, if you try for the same combination of lighting effect on the subject(the ratio business and the big light source business meaning naturally soft without soft focus lenses courtesy old "Sol".
Soft Focus Lens: A special lens that creates soft outlines in the image.
Telephoto Lens: A lens which changes the perspective to make the object appear closer.
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Fujinon lenses are currently manufactured in the following series: "CMW" (standard general purpose), "C" (compact, lightweight lenses), "SW" and "SWD" (wide angle), "T" (telephoto), and "SF" (soft focus lenses used in portraiture).
5-in-1 reflector at camera left, the 27-inch beauty dish mounted on a 620M Flashpoint monolight (at half-power) creates soft, even light that your portrait subjects should like. Camera was Canon EOS 5D with Canon EF 135mm f/2.8 Soft Focus lens and an ...
Since few people outside of Japan understand what the DC lenses do, I don't know that any other than the most savvy pros know about them. Less informed people misunderstand them to be soft focus lenses, which they most assuredly are not.
 See also: Soft focus, Soft, Focus, Lens, Film
  
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