You're never going to get the degree of blur from a 35mm FOV that you would get with a longer lens so there's that. Just about any lens will have great bokeh up close though.... it loosely framed shots where the subject is 5+ feet away is where the GM bokeh is good but not great. You see it in the samples here too. The structure and contrast in the OOF areas tend to dominate when you frame loose and pull a lot of the background details into the frame and the degree of blur is lower...plus focus shift widens the FOV at longer focus distance, so it's exaggerated as you frame more loosely and the subject is further away.
I really like the lens and its a keeper, but it's fair to critique it in areas where its not the best too.
May 12, 2021 at 08:47 AM
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