How do you get that lovely, creamy background blur in your photos? Rod Lawton explains the best lenses to buy to achieve it ...

Bokeh, the quality of the out of focus areas, is beautifully smooth. The amount of selective focus possible with a wide aperture 85mm lens helps anyway and the overall effect is very pleasing.

The L-Mount Alliance has a new member – on March 20, lens company Sirui joined the ecosystem as the ninth brand in the group.

to include an impressive bokeh further shaped by ten aperture blades. The 50mm has 14 lens elements in 11 groups, with the 85mm carrying a fifteenth. The renowned ZEISS T* anti-reflective coating ...

That is really as close to rectilinear as we could hope for, being even better than many macro lenses. Bokeh is lovely, smooth, and fluid and enhances portraits, flower studies and no doubt many ...

Bokeh is a photography term that’s a bit difficult ... or “subject isolation”, achieving it optically requires a fast lens with an aperture below 2.8 or preferably lower.

The AF 35mm f/1.2 LAB FE, the second lens in Viltrox’s acclaimed ... for superior low-light performance. The new AF 85mm f/1.4 Pro FE redefines portrait photography with its sharp details and creamy ...

That price is higher than many first-party primes with autofocus, but it’s a significant cut from the brand’s DSLR lenses, like the Otus F-Mount 85mm which is still available for $4,490 / £3,800.