Gary, I bet you're going to absolutely love the 1.2/50mm out-of-focus rendering on your high-resolution D800E as well.
Smooth bokeh in high resolution is such a thrill, even at high ISO with grains and all.
It will make you an incurable pixel peeper
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In my opinion most lenses only get better with high resolution, it be old lenses or cheap lenses, as well as the high-end lenses of course.
Even bad lenses with all their aberrations and imperfections often become graphically more interesting in high resolution.
Of course an imperfect optic doesn't suddenly become perfect just because of high resolution, but usually it doesn't gets worse either, in my experience.
I don't have any portraits with the f/1.2 I have permission to upload, but I can show you this test target with D800E and the AI-S Nikkor 1.2/50mm wide open.
A graphical joy to zoom into, if you ask me. It makes me wish I had a wall monitor with ~ 7000 x 5000 resolution
Just my 0.02
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© • Nikon D800E • AI-S Nikkor 1.2/50mm • 1/5000 sec. at f/1.2 ISO 100 • Capture NX 2.4.0