>>4054642Sigma C series is even more soulless than their A series. 50mm f2 has meh quality aperture blades and subsequently lousy bokeh for portraits. It's great general lens, though.
Fast 3rd party manual focus lenses fare very well in this aspect. They tend to have weak corners that make them poor landscape lenses (still usually better than adapted lenses), but they have plenty of character, are fast in the range of f1 to f1.4, and they don't cheapout on the aperture blades, giving even the cheaper one's smooth bokeh.
Open up your store and look up for reviews and samples around the net. Everything from 7artisans, TTartisans, Viltroux, Meike should do fine as long as your focusing skills are beyond the degree of incompetence.
