Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 29 November 2001, Feliciano di Giorgio wrote: > > Just got some slides back from a test I shot with a Jupiter-3 > (50mm/1.5). > To my surprise I noticed that when wide open, the out of focus > highlights > turned into rings or doughnuts as opposed to the circles I've seen with > a > Noctilux or Summilux. It actualy looks very pretty, but I had always > been > under the impression that these kinds of artifacts were only seen in the > domain > of reflector type lenses (is that the correct term?). The other and > rather > shocking thing I noticed was how darn sharp this $50 dollar lens > was...but > then again it is a Zeiss at heart. > > Anyone? > > cheers, > > feli > Doughnuts instead of circles results in ni-sen bokeh, a.k.a. "bad" bokeh. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html