Steve Spencer wrote:
I am not surprised about the bokeh. The bokeh pattern with this FE 50 f/1.4 reminds me a lot of the Minolta Rokkor 58 f/1.2. That lens too has much nicer bokeh stopped down a little than wide open. This FE 50 f/1.4 will be great for low light shooting, but the smart photographer like Guy will shoot it at f/1.8 or f/2 with even moderate light and it will be very sharp and the bokeh will be much better. This is a lens for when you want extreme sharpness at wide apertures and good aberration control. It should be great for a lot of types of shooting, but for portraits I think the 85 GM will be much better. So, I definitely see a place for this lens, but for portraits I expect their will eventually be a 50 GM that will be the bees knees and have bokeh that even puts the FE 55 f/1.8 to shame.
This was exactly my first thought when I looked at the results and read Fred\'s comment about stopped down bokeh smoothing out.
This has the signature of the Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 and Canon FL 55mm f/1.2: Bokeh is smoothest and creamiest at around f/2.0. Wide open is a little hectic. (That said, those older lenses simply cannot compete from a technical standpoint with their high LoCA and likely weak-coatings-induced wide open highlight glow.).
Aug 03, 2016 at 03:50 AM
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