Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard Crop it to a vertical, and your problems go away. Bokeh begone! Jerry "Richard F. Man" wrote: > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html