Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/05

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica R bokeh
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Feb 5 06:29:45 2009

Doug Nygren wrote:

>>>>
What have people experienced with various R lenses? Which are the good 
R lenses for bokeh?
<<<<

The "good bokeh" R lenses I've used are:

35mm Summicron-R, late
35m Elmarit-R (any)
50mm Summicron-R, late
50mm Summilux-R, pre-E60
60mm Macro-Elmarit-R
90mm Elmarit-R, early
90mm Summicron-R, pre-APO/ASPH
135mm Elmarit-R, early
180mm Elmar-R
180mm APO-Elmarit-R
350mm f/4.8 Telyt-R
400mm f/6.8 Telyt
560mm f/6.8 Telyt
80-200mm f/4 Vario Elmar-R

the "neutral bokeh" R lenses I've used are:

100mm f/2.8 APO-Macro
280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R

the "bad bokeh" R lenses I've used are:

75-200 f/4.5 Vario
250mm f/4 Telyt-R
280mm f/2.8 APO (pre-modular)

Doug Herr
Birdman of Kauali
http://www.wildlightphoto.com