Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh'm somebody
From: "Juan J. Buhler" <jbuhler@pdi.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:26:47 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Mark Rabiner wrote:

[...]
> We had to deal with the misconception of older Leica glass having
> better bokeh. LOTS and LOTS of BS about how the new ASPH's had bad
> bokeh.
> But it's nice that as better Bokeh is just part of better lens
> design; Leica is the bokeh king.

Do you have any references for this?  My understanding was that older
lenses, not uncorrected for color aberrations, had more "creamy"
(gaussian) bokeh.

Isn't that so?

j


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