NIKON LENS GOOD COLOR AND BOKEH6?

NIKON LENS GOOD COLOR AND BOKEH6? - 1

Added (1). looking to purchase a new lens, I currently have the 85mm-f1.8g I like it but I'm looking for a more professional level lens my price range is up to 1,500 I'm looking for something sharp good color and i"m a bokeh fanatic so that's a must, TIA
~Heidi

My guess is that you do NOT know that lens design is what determines a good "buttery" out of focus background (Bokeh) Genreally this is one of the attributes of medium telephoto prime lenses.

When it comes to lenses introducing a colour shifts in an image this is really not a problem with modern lenses. Any colour shifts can be attributed to the kind of light being used to light the subject and mismatch if the photographer sets the white balance incorrectly.

If you shoot in RAW, you can make corrections in white balance using a combintation of an Xrite Colorchecker Passport (taking a shot if if before each shooting assignment) and using that profile in Lightroom CC to batch all the images so that they reflect the correct white balance. However you must be working with a computer monitor that has bee recently calibrated and profiled using a device like the Xrite i1 Display or Colormunki Pro.

My favorite portrait lenses when it comes to buttery Bokeh are the old, old Nikkor 105 mm f/2.5 AI (manual focus) and the much newer Nikkor AF DC 135 mm f/2.0

In general, zoom lenses are NOT known for producing pleasing out of focus backgrounds and the more leaves are in the lenses aperture design, the better chance there's that the out of focus areas behind the subject will be pleasing.

Renting and testing many different lenses to see which of them produce the best "Bokeh" can get very expensive, but it is the only what to know for sure that the lenses you eventually buy will produce the kind of Bokeh you want

Is this lens going on an FX, DX, or 1? It does make a difference.

Maybe you can find a Nikkor AF 180mm f/2.8 D ED in your price range.

Nikon 35mm f/1.8
Nikon 50mm f/1.8

Inexpensive yet great quality.

"Bokeh," is Japanese for, "I can't shoot for toffee, so I'll try to be artistic."

You choose a lens for what it can do (and whether you need to do it), not because you think throwing money at kit will improve your photography.

I highly recommend that you go to photozone.de where they provide numerical values to the sharpness of each tested lens. They also provide great sample photos and thorough testing of the bokeh too.