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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 295762" data-attributes="member: 16749">For me, it has to be this one, the 50mm ƒ1.4 lens that I originally got with my F2.[ATTACH]84531[/ATTACH]  Aside from the 18-55mm “kit lens” that came with my D3200, the only other lenses I have to use with it are this 50mm, a 28mm ƒ3.5 Nikkor, and an 85-205mm ƒ3.8 Vivitar zoom lens, all about equally ancient (c. late 1960s to early 1970s), all originally purchased to go with my F2.  All of them are non-AI lenses.  Nikon claims that non-AI lenses cannot be used with the D3200, but my three non-AI lenses, my D3200, and I, disagree with Nikon on this point.[ATTACH]84539[/ATTACH]  I've made a couple of stencil disks to go on the front of this lens, to mess with the bokeh.  One has a flower-shaped cutout, that makes flower-shaped bokeh…[ATTACH]84543[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]84544[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]84545[/ATTACH]  The other has a heart-shaped cutout, to make heart-shaped bokeh…[ATTACH]84546[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]84547[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]84548[/ATTACH]  I'll probably make other disks, to give other shapes to this lens' bokeh, as the mood takes me.  So far, just the two.  I may have to do some experimenting with the 85-205 beyond what I have already done, to see if I can get some decent bokeh with it.[ATTACH]84553[/ATTACH]  An interesting feature, with this lens, is how extremely-shallow I can get the depth of field.  Here's a picture of my wife, giving me a “Don't you dare take my picture!” expression, taken from somewhere between six and ten feet away, with this lens at 205mm and ƒ3.8.  Note that the tip of her nose in is sharp focus, and nothing else.  I think I have less than an inch of depth of field in this shot.[ATTACH]84551[/ATTACH]  From slightly farther away, same lens, same settings, this candy jar on a bookshelf.  A few of the candies in the jar are in sharp focus, and again, nothing else.  Still less than an inch of depth of field.[ATTACH]84552[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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