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Subject: [Leica] What's the Best All-Around 50?
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri May 12 09:10:21 2006



On 5/12/06 12:04 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:

> The is no ugly bokeh, only ugly photographers. If I may add one little
> observation without risking venomous retorts??? How rare does a
> photographer have to be to judge out of focus  areas on a rangefinder?
> inquiring minds want to know, right Marc? BTW, oof  has a nice ring to
> it, think we could wed it an appropriate lens characteristic besides
> bokeh? Some kind of Yankee ingenuity thing.
> 
> The Gritmaster
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> I still own that lens, and it's served me well - but then I only worry 
>> about
>> bokeh if it's ugly, and I don't feel that lens has ugly bokeh. But it's 
>> the
>> very rare photographer who gives no thought to what the out-of-focus areas
>> look like with a given lens - though they may not know the term for those
>> areas.
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/12/06 2:03 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> But it is also held in high regard my many on the list, so it must be an
>>> individual choice. I sold the 1.5/50mm Nokton after a few months. I
>>> liked the lens in every respect, except that its bokeh was horrible.
>>> That prompted me to sell it and go for the real thing, i.e. the Summilux.
>>> 
>>> Nathan
>>> 
>>> Marc James Small wrote:
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> At 08:34 PM 5/11/06 +0100, Colin J wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>>>> 2) Bokeh
>>>>>    
>>>>>        
>>>>> 
>>>> With all respect, "bokeh" is a matter held in little regard by many of 
>>>> us
>>>> on the List.  To some, such as yourself, as it would appear, it is of
>>>> import, but to many of us, it would not reach the radar screen as we 
>>>> see it
>>>> as a fiction.  It cannot be qauantified and therefore is not an issue.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> msmall@aya.yale.edu
>>>> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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