Very pleasing to me without a hint of distraction. I feel like you are fighting the good fight for this lens, and I like it!
I think I found out how to use it. It does that funky bokeh only when the background is brighter than the subject and / or has strong specular lights or bright details. In such cases you need to stop it down, 2.8 tames it and by 4 you're pretty safe. So I guess that between 1.8 and 2.8 it does over bright rendering of specular lights and bright details. With darker backgrounds you can shoot freely at any aperture, it will be pretty smooth.
The other good news is that the aperture shape is pretty circular at all stops, you won't see any nonagons or other funny stuff when stopping down. And it doesn't do double vision either.
Here are two examples with bright subject and darker background, the "bokeh" is as good as any. I'd actually dare to say "better than many" since it doesn't do double vision. I didn't use a tripod so the framing is slightly off between pics.
Very pleasing to me without a hint of distraction. I feel like you are fighting the good fight for this lens, and I like it!
I think I found out how to use it. It does that funky bokeh only when the background is brighter than the subject and / or has strong specular lights or bright details. In such cases you need to stop it down, 2.8 tames it and by 4 you're pretty safe. So I guess that between 1.8 and 2.8 it does over bright rendering of specular lights and bright details. With darker backgrounds you can shoot freely at any aperture, it will be pretty smooth.
The other good news is that the aperture shape is pretty circular at all stops, you won't see any nonagons or other funny stuff when stopping down. And it doesn't do double vision either.
Here are two examples with bright subject and darker background, the "bokeh" is as good as any. I didn't use a tripod so the framing is slightly off between pics.
f:/2.8:
f:/5.6
Oct 20, 2019 at 06:37 PM
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