Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:41 AM 12/1/98 -0800, you wrote: >>>The sharpness was remarkable and the main subject had a very pleasant >depth of field. The background was like a painted canvas backdrop. The >backlights blend together like complete circles thanks to the leica lenses >with more diaphragm blades.<< > >Sorry but I do not understand what difference it makes how many diaphragm >blades a lens has if it is being used wide open? > >don > > Don You are right. It would make no difference. So the thing for anyone to do in order to achieve nice round out of focus lightspots would be to shoot with whatever lens (especially those lenses with few diaphragm blades) opened to max aperture. The downside is that not all lenses perform well at maximum apertures. I am always amazed with the way Leica lenses perform at maximum apertures. Dan K.