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Trustworthy Portrait: Philosophy. Xenophon's Memorabilia contains one of the most trustworthy portraits of Socrates (4697-399 B. c), who was the first to point a way out of the morass into which the Sophists' relativism and skepticism had led philosophy. Probably a portrait even closer to the truth is to be found in the earlier dialogues of Socrates' greatest disciple, Plato (428?-?347 B.C.). Socrates himself wrote nothing, but he appears as a principal interlocutor in most of the Platonic dialogues. Hence has arisen the perennial problem of separating the purely Platonic from Socrates' own contributions.
However, although a long focal length lens is mandatory, it need not be expensive. The utmost of critical sharpness in a portrait lens is not necessary, or even desired, since considerable diffusion can be tolerated in portrait negatives. Your lens needn't be in a shutter for strictly studio portraits, either. A lens in barrel is perfectly satisfactory, since you can provide yourself with a simple Packard shutter to use behind the lens. Many portrait men actually prefer the Packard to the more costly between-the-lens shutters.
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