Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas Cooper <douglas@dysmedia.com> wrote: >> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dkieltyka/Bokeh.htm > > That does indeed illustrate much better bokeh than I've > witnessed. Specular highlights are almost perfect. I see > just a touch of double-line, but it's hard to judge on a > monitor. I'd love to know what f-stop you were using -- > clearly it is stopped down a bit, as the highlights aren't > precisely circular. Douglas, the lens was somewhere around f/4. I took a series of photos at various apertures but it was a breezy autumn afternoon and this was one of the few shots not marred by swinging berries. > My observations with the DR were at f2, focusing as > closely as possible without going into the close-range > (as I don't have the eyes). I'm going to do some testing > today at f4 and f5.6. > > Your picture gives me great hope, however. Good. I love my DR! I've used it wide-open quite often with similar results to the berries shot. This particular DR is a hybrid...a second version lens body with a first version lens head. Could be a serrendipitous mismatch. :-) (Note: for those of you interested in its in-focus performance <g> it does a stellar job there too.) - -Dave-