Mental ray DOF with standard lights

 

DOF = Depth of field.

 

Set up a camera and at the bottom of the parameters rollout activate mental ray DOF:

 

 

A little further down, set dof to 3.0:

 

Here is our render default setting we just used:

 

 

You can increase to 1 and 4 to increase detail a bit:

 

 

 

Change the f-stop to a lower number: