And just to add, my 125 AL keeps more round bokeh across apertures. I don't know how many blades it has and the shape, but I can see that it doesn't have the hard bokeh edges that the 110 does as you stop down from wide open.
For a macro lens, I would have prioritized the aperture mechanism design in favor of the 125 approach.
tsdevine wrote:
Going with straight aperture blades on the 110 made the sunstar fans happy, but for a macro lens, I think they should have gone with curved blades. (Or maybe something along the lines of the 50 AL where at certain apertures it's round and at others it gives sunstars.....although even that might not make sense on a macro lens.)
Ripolini wrote:
I'm not sure we can state that the 110/2.5 APO has - apart f/2.5 - a smooth bokeh (from Dustin Abbott review):
