[Leica] Re: Big Bad Bokeh! ;-)

[Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>]

At 08:13 AM 12/27/00 -0800, Ted wrote:
>
>What I find really interesting now, is not the "bokeh topic in itself,"
but how
>quickly the subject raises the hairs on the back of neck's on so many 
>LUGNUTS as
>soon as the word and topic is broached once again. When the word comes on the
>topic head it appears as though there is an immediate "hostility factor"
>emanating from the screen along with sight of the word.:-)
>
>Ted

The exact reason I started this "Bokeh controversy" thread. Yeah, someone
discovered that different lenses exhibit a different background blur, but
when the rubber meets the road, you use what you have.

You won't say "Oh! I can't take that photograph because the lens I need to
use has bad Bokeh." This is not a deciding factor and in reality, is
probably not something anybody (save the dabblers and fondlers) thinks
about when out photographing. You will photograph as wide open as you can.
But you will do it with whatever lens you are using.

Bokeh is a fact. But it is a property for academia and idle conversation by
those who wish to extoll the virtues of out of focus Leica lenses.

This is not to say that there aren't some folks that go out specifically to
do "Bokeh photographs." There are. But 99.9999% of the photo outings are
for photographs of whatever you encounter, with whatever you have with you,
that fits the situation.

Jim