Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 17/4/00 7:00 PM, P2CON@aol.com at P2CON@aol.com wrote: > Johnny, I hate to see a person blow off a lens on the basis of a very limited > evaluation of bokeh. Hmmm -- I reckon 10-12 rolls (360-400 exposures) is enough to judge a lens, especialy as I shot it in so many different situations. I didn't share most of the result because they're personal and I don't put family pictures on the web, but luckily it's still me who decides what lens I keep, not the LUG. Anyone who knows my work will know that I am not exactly averse to putting stuff on the web!!! 220 images on Human Traffic and counting! The 75 and the 50 bokeh are really quite different. The 75 shows pronounced 'ni-sen' (double image bokeh) in the near field, while the 50 shows a very pronounced smearing effect, which has a rather hard edge in both near and distant field bokeh. The problem with criticising a lens for its bokeh is that according to graphs it's a very fine lens, and some people think you're counting angels on pin heads. However, a 1.4 or 1.5 lens is a lens which is asking to be shot wide open. If you do so, and use it like I do, as a scalpel to isolate a plane of focus in a complex field, then bokeh constitutes MOST of your image area and it had better be damn good. Anyway, just my two cents. I had high hopes for the Nokton but in the end it's not a lens for me... despite being a very fine lens for the money. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk