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Outstanding.

I have to say that the whole longer focal length=better bokeh thing has always puzzled me. For me, I think of bokeh quality improving as the ratio of camera distance to subject/subject distance to background decreases (ie. if I am one foot from the subject, a and the subject is ten feet from the background, I get better bokeh than the reverse). I sort of get that a longer focal length will have a foreshortening effect, but if it entails backing off at all for framing it seems to me that you are going to be upsetting the ratio. Not such an issue for macro photography where you typically aren't going to be backing out, but it is an issue for portrait photography where you wander around a bit. Hmmm.

The only thing I would add to the above is a small point re points of light bokeh. If you shoot with your lens wide open (smallest f/stop), you lose the geometric shapes on points of light created by your aperture blades, and get a circle (because your blades are out of the way).

EL