michael49 wrote:
Agreed, which is what I like about the bokeh in this thread. I\'ve got a Sigma 50 1.4 which does creamy more than any 50 I\'ve ever used but I\'m looking for a 50 that is \"painterly\", as you say, like this image (this bokeh is incredibly lively and really makes the image come alive)...
if you\'d like a cheap lens that has very similar bokeh to the MD 50mm f/1.2, i would recommend the MD 50mm f/1.7. i find them to be more similar than any of the other rokkors i have looked at. the only problem is of course that it is a stop lower so it produces less blur. it should balance better on a mirrorless camera than f/1.2 though and it has considerably less loCA wide open.
here\'s a couple samples i had posted earlier in the thread:
and a few new ones i hadn\'t posted since i thought they might be a little to funky:
i\'m really sorry that i missed focus on this because i really like it otherwise:
paul - thanks for that comparison, it\'s quite illuminating. the 58/1.2 seems to blur everything much more than any of the other lenses like it has a much narrower dof than the other lenses, despite the in focus area looking to be the same size.
to continue my budget recommendations i\'ll say that the MC 50mm f/1.4 has the smoothest bokeh of the rokkors i\'ve owned and seems to me to draw more similarly to the 58/1.2 than to the 50/1.2. according to the rokkor files it is the same optical design as the 58/1.2, but given the difference in focal length i wouldn\'t read too much into that.
Nov 16, 2010 at 06:00 AM
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