>>3599812>I have looked at so many reviews lately and it's always recommended to just stop down to f2Depending on the lens, that's not a bad thing if you're going for bokeh and not low light. Given enough aperture blades (10-12 and above), you can have perfectly circular bokehballs at any aperture. And based on lens design, the contrast/sharp jump at f/2 might make your something pop out more from the background, keeping or increasing *apparent* separation.
Classic sonnars have this exact trait.
These chinese lenses are sonnar designs, no?
If it's for low light, you just shoot wide open, and let the bokeh be, you're trying to capture the subject and not the bokehballs.