Bokeh OOF at maximum aperture

Part of the driver for my acquisition of standard lenses was the perspective you get in portraiture and street photography. The other part is my feeble attempt at trying to put some life into my images ... so it doesn't feel stale and exact. At that point of my photography I was trying to escape the "perfect" sharp edge to edge images that I've been making with the system I had at the time.

At one point I felt that the perfect lens produced the perfect photographs that feels rather dry, dead and technical. That led to the complete sell-off of all of my Nikon prime lenses. With the help of ebay, I turned to vintages glasses, the standard 50mm and 80mm. Most of these lenses were formulated and manufactured even before I was born, technically "imperfect" as they are well cared for specimens are still much sought after until today.

In that vein I thought it'd be pretty cool to collect oof images for the various 50mm lenses, so here they are in one post :

Olympus OM 28/2.8

Canon FD 35/2.0

Leica L39 Elmar 50/3.5

Leica M Summicron 50/2.0

Leica L39 Summar 50/1.9

Canon LM Serenar 50/1.9 : stack f/1.9+f/11.0

Canon EF50/1.2

Canon FD50/1.8

Minolta MC ROKKOR-X PG 58/1.2

Nikon AIS 50/1.8

Nikon AIS 50/1.8

Nikon AIS 50/1.8

Samyang AF85/1.4

Minolta MC ROKKOR-PF 85/1.7

Leica R Elmarit 90/2.8

Olympus OM 100/2.8

Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-Q Auto 135/3.5

Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-Q Auto 135/3.5

Leica Elmarit R 135/2.8

Sigma Art 135/1.8