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RE: An Essential Guide to Portraits: How to Take a Fantastic Portrait For Beginners
Classic portrait lenses, ”kings of bokeh” would be Canon’s and Nikon’s 85mm f1.4, and now we have Fuji 56mm f1.2 as a brilliant and relatively affordable solution. Canon’s 135mm f2 L is fantastic but very expensive, and I had very good results with their 100mm f2.8 macro lens, which can serve very well as a portrait lens.
On a wider scale it is not easy to find a pair for that wonderful Leica’s Summicron 35mm f2. Nikkor is very good but big and heavy. Sometimes it’s simpler and easier to buy a whole Fujifilm X100f and use it for an ambient portraits.
Those are some great lenses. I wish I had the money to buy some to improve my shots :) The Nikkor is nothing compared to my medium format film gear so I feel light when carrying around the digital.
I have a "King of Bokeh" Lens but it's kinda old and needs an adapter and to be honest I haven't spent that much time with it. The Pentacon "bokeh monster" 135 2.8 with its 15 aperture blades has some great results online and I should make more of an effort with it. But it's heavy and metal and it's winter here right now haha