Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/20

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Subject: Re: Bokeh:a mythical construct
From: Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:19:46 -0500
 
At 10:39 PM 11/20/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Second: any lens designer can concentrate on maximizing the characteristics
>of the sharpness (more general: the rendition) of the in-focus-plane and
>,speaking relatively, neglect the correction of optical defects in the
>out-of-focus areas.
>That is what most japanese lensdesigners do as they optimize for high MTF
>values in the plane of focus. Therefore the noted diffences between for
>instance Leica and Nikon/Canon.

Erwin:

Sounds to me like you're talkin' Bokeh. A rose by any other name . . .


Tom