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Soligor 135mm f1.8 | | Latest Review Posted | Soligor 135mm f1.8
What is a 135/1.8 for? It's for taking formal headshot portraits in low light, obviously. :D
This is a weird lens in multiple ways. I can't really recommend it, but it is unique and does some interesting things. It's just that the optical formula that makes it interesting also makes it bad.
Bokeh
To start out with the strangeness, the bokeh is not great. You would expect huge glass with a circular aperture to be a bokeh monster, but the quality just doesn't out-pace the quantity. With anything even remotely busy in the background, the bokeh will be swimmy. It isn't "painterly" or "swirly". It looks jumbled, haphazard, and harsh. It's distracting, which is the worst thing bokeh can be.
It does get interesting with specular highlights and bokeh balls. The circular aperture is great, and circles remain circles throughout the entire aperture range. But, those circles are weird. The bokeh balls have a strange rainbow effect around the edges and sometimes in the middle. It isn't subtle, either. The thin, bright rim of red is obvious. Then, the rainbow continues toward the center of each ball, through all of the colors, to a wide swath of violet.
Bokeh balls toward the edges of the frame take on a sort of gibbous moon shape and smushed inner edge of the circle gets quite a lot of onion rings. The onion rings disappear toward the outer edge where the rainbow is still intact.
Bokeh balls from specular highlights in the foreground... | |
