Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick jotted down the following: > M. You completely missed my point. The point of the entire post. Then perhaps you should have stated it more clearly. It appeared to me, who is of normal intelligence and average native English reading ability, that the point of your message was that taking bokeh into consideration would require additional lenses (based presumably on the unstated assumption that lenses with good bokeh are necesarily different from any other lenses one might own) that must be brought with the photographer at any time he/she wishes to go out and take pictures. My point was that many people already have duplicates of focal length or equipment -- sometimes in different formats -- which are chosen depending upon what the picture-taking scenario is. We very rarely, if ever, haul all our gear, but rather choose those pieces suitable for a given situation. Why should this situation be any different? If you're going to take sweeping landscapes where everything is pin-sharp in focus, then obviously bringing along that 1960's 90mm Summicron for its bokeh is going to be a little superfluous and the more compact and lighter 90mm APO-ASPH would probably be a better choice. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | People don't like to be parameters email: howard.390@osu.edu | in an equation. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------