Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like what someone wrote, something to the effect that a bad picture with good bokeh is still a bad picture. A good picture with a bad bokeh is still a good picture, but a good picture with a good bokeh can make it into a great picture. I like this picture: http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/tn/img007.jpg.html but the bokeh of the couch drives me nuts. This is the Zuiko 50/1.4 at 1.4. At 11:27 AM 10/1/2003 -0400, B.D. wrote: >I would humbly suggest, Doug, that most people who shoot with a 50 1.4 >are far more interested in the in-focus areas than the bokeh. In fact, I >would suggest that bokeh is largely - but certainly not entirely - an >obsession of people on lists of this sort; I admit I never gave it a >nanosecond's thought before joining the LUG. For me, the single most >important requirement for a lens is that it render the subject in a way >I want it rendered; the out of focus areas are just that - out of focus. >And if, in reality, bokeh was such an incredibly important issue to >people on this list, virtually no one here would ever attach a Noctilux >to their Ms, much less shoot with it, given the oft-times nausea >inducing bokeh that lens can produce. ;-) >... // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard@imagecraft.com) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html