Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]TINA MANELY OFFERED AFTER READING: Mike Johnson's BOKEH article: >> He also comments that bokeh gets more problematic: the larger the aperture the closer the focus the more distant the background the more contrasty the background No wonder I had problems. My 3 photos included all of the problematic possibilities!<<<<< ============================================================================ ============== Hi CREW & TINA, So once again Mike and his bokeh assessments and spooky stories about this lens phenomena raises it's so called ugly head and nearly everyone acquires wet pants of panic over it! Get over it! Simply because if you know nothing about it "" It don't matter! "IT's THE CONTENT THAT COUNTS!!! HOWEVER IT MATTERS TO THE OVER TECHIE PEOPLE!"" Good buddy Mike being one of them! :-) Hi Mike! ;-) OK here I go again.;-) So please let me explain before some of you get wet pants ? ;-) I had been a working well published and paid professional photographer for I suppose 30 years or more and never knew such a lens phenomena existed. Until one day shortly after joining the LUG and Mike Johnson came on with his spooky "bokeh -- BS!" Heck I had never read anything about this "HORRID LENS EFFECT" let alone it even existed. So OK I had nearly always used LEICA glass, whether it exists on LEICA lenses or not? "PLEASE DON'T TELL IF IT DOES, SIMPLY BECAUSE, "WHAT I DON'T KNOW ISN'T GOING TO HURT MY PICTURES!" :-) Besides it obviously wasn't a detrimental factor! As I was being hired to fly about the world on "paying published assignments!"NEVER A WORD FROM SOME OF THE TOUGHEST-ASSED PHOTO EDITORS YOU NEVER WANT TO HAVE! KILLERS OF ONES FEELINGS! So when it came up on the LUG screen and I read about it, my immediate re-action was "BUll-s-t!" STILL IS IN CAPITAL LETTERS!" Because if it were such a horrid picture spoiling effect? I'd certainly have been chastised to tears any number of times in the past published 60 years! But do you know what???? Not one peep about the "bokeh effect" in any of the over 300,000 images in the National Archives collection! OK folks, those who made it to the Leica Gallery New York? ........ "I didn't hear any comments about the horrid evil "BOKEH FACTOR" in any of the photos hanging on the walls? Therefore? Is "BOKEH" as usual, just another techie bit of jabber-whookie needlessly wasting our picture taking time babbling about it? INSTEAD OF TAKING PICTURES? OK folks, "have a go at the old LAD!" :-) Whatever you do say, truly isn't going to change my mind about "THE BIG BAD BOOGIE BOKEHMAN!" :-) cheers, Dr. ted :-)the "big bad bokeh boogeyman":-) -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: August-20-14 3:39 PM To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com; Leica Users Group; paw; seephoto; Olympus Camera Discussion Subject: [Leica] Bokeh and Lenses PESO: Mike Johnston (The Online Photographer) has written quite a bit about bokeh. He has a pdf in which he rates many lenses for their bokeh. http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/files/bokehrankings5.pdf He also comments that bokeh gets more problematic: the larger the aperture the closer the focus the more distant the background the more contrasty the background No wonder I had problems. My 3 photos included all of the problematic possibilities! Guess I'll try again. The Summicron does get a 10 in the lens ratings. Tina -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information