>>4086606Depends on a lens. The glass in Zeiss/Voigtlander lenses is specifically engineered to render light in an embossed manner. This adds dimensionality to objects in the image instead of just rendering everything on a single plane, almost as if you made a paper cutout of everything and then glued it together to form an image.
>>4086617Micro-contrast is not the reason why these lenses render like that. It's the overall lens design, everything from APO glass elements (not coating, actual APO glass), aspherical glass elements, different engineering finishes of the glass elements to render light in a more smooth and clear manner, coatings for longitudinal aberration control, etc., etc... All of that results in amazingly smooth and dimensional rendering of light, resulting in almost real life like images. Additionally, background blur aka. ''bokeh'' has nothing to do with dimensional aka. embossed rendering of the lens. A lens that has good dimensional rendering will render depth and tonality of objects at f16 the same as it would on f2.8 or f1.2.
