Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] tuck's great bokeh...
From: Dante A Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:19:48 -0500
References: <200101011839.NAA14047@unix3.netaxs.com>

???

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> do i see the distinctive signature of a 300mm f2.8 in "funstuff"?


I am curious about this first one - it looks like Gaussian blur to me.  
The mother carrying the child looks more out of focus than the woman on 
the right in the foreground.  If the focus point were the little girl, 
coming forward the mother(?) should be a little bit blurred and the 
woman in the foreground a lot more.  If it's really a telephoto, the 
perspective might be compressed (and the girl held aloft by someone 
else), but that still doesn't explain why the middle woman is so much 
*less* sharp than the one on the right.  I don't think telephotos would 
produce fields that curved.

The second photo looks a little more natural.

> 
> i gotta start using slower film so i can open up....

Why not an ND8 filter? 

Dante

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