>>4421282The poppiest image has the subject furthest away and smallest in the frame. I think this is not a coincidence. Anybody can put the subject right up close and bokeh the fuck out of everything else, but these so-called-poppy images don't do that. It seems to me that this is basically the same as "medium format look" or the effect you get with the brenizer method, where your subject is relatively far away and small in frame, but still you have enough bokeh for subject separation.
In that case I say it's a skill issue. Just stop your fancy modern lens down to f/2.8 like your crappy old one's max aperture and you'll get the same thing. Also quite a bit of vignetting on the "poppy" image, but modern lenses have that too, just turn off vignetting correction.
