Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad bokeh
From: Marc Attinasi <marc@attinasi.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:42:14 -0800
References: <EC1D893EF5042348ADC8A79B742E9EFB6D87A8@GCI-MOCEX01.us.ad.gannett.com>

You call it bad bokeh, but I find it very cool and I like it.  Where do 
I get one of those ancient Xenon thingies anyway? I didn't even know 
they made cameras in the stone age ;)

I think this shot is a good example of how the out of focus areas DO 
matter - for good or for bad. What is around the subject influences how 
we see the subject. So, unless there is ONLY in-focus subject in the 
frame, how the out of focus area looks matters.  We care how a picture 
is matted and framed too, otherwise we would just use old newspaper and 
cardboard.

- - marc

Zeissler, Mitch wrote:

>Here's another:
>
>http://members.aol.com/zeissleica/private/Bluebells.jpg
>
>This was shot with a 1936 Leica Xenon 50mm f/1.5 wide open with Provia
>100F.  Very bizarre.
>
>/Mitch
>


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