Obviously, ugly is as ugly does. Bokeh varies with aperture and with the distance of items in the frame from the focal point, as you know.
How can one say, definitively, absolutely that a lens has bad bokeh? My 500/8 mirror lens exhibits un-aesthetic bokeh at times, but not too bad depending how items in the FOV are placed outside the DOF. 'Millions of shots' don't prove anything? That's like saying if I take one picture of my wife when she's sick and has the flu, that she's ugly, whereas in plenty of pictures she's a stunner when she's feeling great. Tom C. >From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: M85mm f2.0 bokeh >Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:31:39 -0400 > >well all it proves is your shots didnt reveal the ugly >bokeh nearly as well as the shot I took specifically >to show the ugly bokeh do. It only takes one photo >with ugly bokeh to prove it has ugly bokeh, millions >of shots that dont reveal it dont prove anything >if the one shot that does DOES. I dont think >there is any possibility that there is anything >amiss with my sample because for normal photography >its very sharp and contrasty... >jco > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >William Robb >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:36 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >Subject: M85mm f2.0 bokeh > > >A few days ago, Thibouille was asking about the bokeh of the M85 f2 >lens. My recollection was that it was as smooth as silk, but I hadn't >really used it recently, favouring the 77mm lens instead. I decided to >pull the 85 off the shelf to remind myself of how much I enjoyed it's >rendering abilities. Here then is a couple of shots taken with the >M85/2, one shot wide open, and a similar shot taken at f/4. >http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/m852bokeh/852bokeh.html >It is as smooth as I remember. > >Camera info: >K10, ISO100. > >William Robb > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
