Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The 1.4 Asph gets my vote. > > I'm fascinated by the stories of the beautiful bokeh of the old 35/2 > and 35/1.4 and one day I'll get one or both, just to see. But I doubt > I would dump my Aspherical lens after being seduced by bokeh. > > my 2 cents. > > Rick Dykstra. > I'm with Ted Grant whose position has always been I'm pretty sure that a shot is more about what's IN focus than what's OUT of focus. This would or should sound obvious but the way half these guys on the list talk about glass it would seem to me mainly about Bokeh. I think there is a real Gestalt crisis going on. Things have gotten more yang yin than yin yang. Be it Bokeh could be the coolest revelation since sliced bread about what we peons can understand about the whole voodoo of lens design but lets get real here. Lets get focused. I'm just not with many of my friends on list and else ware who feel there is some negative hard edged Bokeh or elsewise thing about the newest ASPH designs. I never met an ASPH I didn't like! And DO feel I know an ASPH from a hole in the ground. I agree with this post of Ricks 100% - I've got mainly current glass now but am fascinated by what in time the older glass might do for my imagery. But am now there as I just got a mid 70's vintage 40 Summicron Wetzlar a few weeks ago. I just tweaked 5 rolls I just got back with CD's. The Bokeh is clearly different than what I think I'm used to. Real noticeable because I had lots of little lights in the background out of focus in a lot of the shots. They really rendered interestingly. Actually almost TOO interestingly and I'm almost thinking the opposite of the going opinion that the Bokeh issuers are with the new stuff not the old. My gut feeling tells me if you've got a silky smooth look than that's the look in the stuff I want IN focus. And I don't want my IN FOCUS stuff to be silky smooth. I want it to be (apologies to Erwin!) SHARP! Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/