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Anonymous
Obviously have a subject as great as Ginsberg and use a 20x24 Polaroid with one 600mm lens set at f/11 and Polaroid Polacolor film.
Seriously, though. If one can't get Elsa Dorfman's set-up (there's only six of them in the whole world), I find the best thing is (usually, there's always frequent exceptions in photography) a medium telephoto (Say, somewhere between 70 and and 105mm at a relatively wide aperture, dependent on that particular's lenses properties, on a relatively quiet camera. Why a quiet camera? Somebody once said something like, "you can't avoid them knowing you're taking pictures; you can avoid reminding them of it every time you press the shutter." Self-conciousness, I've found, is the enemy of a good portrait. (Of course, this makes your only options a old TLR or film rangefinder, a point and shoot, or a Leica M8 or Epson RD-1. So the key word here is "ideal.")
Exhibit A: The epitome of self-conciousness, MySpace.
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