Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 19:23 30.04.1998 +0100, Ted wrote: <<< Bokeh is something I never thought of in the past, as I've always been more concerned with getting the damn subject sharp and the background as far out of focus as posssible when the back ground doesn't play a role in the photograph.! :) >>> - --- lot of remarkable stuff snipped -- Exactly there is the difference. Several of Tina's pictures showing persons in their natural environment (?, word) demonstrate, that the background has an important function (i.e. paula.jpg, Honduras series). Though the 1.4/35 asph Summilux is the sharpest piece of glass I ever saw, the out-of-focus rendition - if important - looks "disharmonic" at lower f-stops and agrees appr. to the corresponding rendition of a 50 mm at f 2.8 or f 4.0. The reason for this "inballance" is based in the fact, that the unsharp field comes too sudden, too abrupt, compared to the rendition from the non-asph 35 mm M lenses. It is fine, if you want to clear your subjject off the background, but it's "misplaced" somehow, if the background is a vivid element in your composition. From that experience, it would be of advantage, if you take some test pictures of your most ffavorite subject, and compare them to pictures, which are (emotionally) important to yourself. I agree to all the rest of Ted's reply. Alf - -------------------------------------------------- Alfred Breull http://members.aol.com/abreull/index.htm http://members.aol.com/mfformat/c-mf.htm