50mm f/1.8 ugly brokeh

What the heck?? Does anyone have any example of a 50mm 1.4 lens wide open? I heard that has better brokeh

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50/1.4@1.4. Sort of short notice and it's dark outside, but this is 3ft from subject and subject is about five feet from the TV.

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You're right, that is pretty ugly. Try searching by lens type on pbase.com

Must be due to the light coming thru the tree. I had great results with my 1.8

Or does the bokeh progressively get worse of objects further from the lens? those trees were perhaps 10-12 feet away from the camera lens.

We don't know what aperture you were shooting.. with the sun in the image I would asume you were stopped down a bit.. which would totally change the bokeh..

Also,. you may not have enough distance to the trees relative to your distance from the focus subject. ie: that your too far from the railing (the focus subject) ... try doing it where you are closer to the railing... and/or make sure you are shooting at f/1.8

The further you are from subject focus,. the larger the depth of feild.. so yes in a sense,. this could have something to do with it.

it's not as smooth indeed, due to the 5 blade diaphragm... you can do *a lot* better than that though (as far as bokeh).... that looks pretty ugly

The 50mm f/1.8 sometimes does produce some pretty ugly bokeh - here's a picture shot at 1.8 :

You are right, the 50/1.4 is generally known to produce better bokeh.

Still, I think the main problem with your pictures is the harsh lighting conditions (light coming through tree). I've seen pictures from other lenses like this where I did not like the (otherwise nice) bokeh.

Y'know, when you think you know it all, there's another thing left to consider

Best regards,
Andy

Blame it on the blades...........less blades = less rounded bokeh leading to the choppiness you see on your image.............I don't know how much better the f1.4 version would do though......but probably a tad better.

Ro1

Was this shot with the 1.8 or the 1.4 - title of the post and body of the post are not in agreement there.....??

Take a look here for examples of the bokeh of the 2 lenses.

Best regards,
Andy

My original image was shot at 1.8. .I wouldn't put up a picture of any other aperature..

heh.. this is at f3.2, or 3.5 I forgot the Av already.

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