Way too much bokeh!

[steve_chan5]

Wafer thin plane of focus slices behind object in foreground, doh!<div></div>

[peter_evans4]

<p>Ooh, I've got a lens that will do that trick in spades: a Canon 85/1.8,

apparently LTM but without rangefinder coupling. Presumably it's the

85mm equivalent of the 50/0.95 TV lens that unsuspecting eBleurgh

punters are warned about.

Interestingly it has no distance calibration beyond two enigmatic white

lines (one I suppose for infinity, one I know not where), or indeed

aperture click-stops, but it does have

DoF markings. I infer that I'm supposed to test it myself and calibrate it

myself. (How? With a Stanley knife?) Loads of aperture blades, so the

"bokeh"

-- let's spell it right for a change: ボケ味 -- should

be exquisite as well as luxuriant.</p>

[didjiman]

Pretty good trick, how did you get a 50/1.2?

 

I thought you are not into high speed lens? So which organ did you sell to get a 35/1.2 or 50/1.5?

[steve_chan5]

Richard,

My mistake - that was the CV 50/1.5

 

I have a Canon 50/1.2 as well that is my current boat anchor lens. High speed lenses are fine, so long as they don't cost a million, zillion dollars and they aren't the lens you have to carry around all the time.

 

Steve

[grant_.]

wow, what an incredibly boring photo

[stuart_richardson]

Too much bokeh here, but I still like the photo. Canon fd 50mm 1.2L at 1.2. Peter, what is

the character for "aji" doing

after the "boke" in the characters you posted? Or perhaps it is just my encoding.

 

 

 

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2302823-md.jpg">

[steve_chan5]

Grant,

Yep - I agree. So much for bokeh!

 

Maybe this one is more to your taste.<div></div>

[grant_.]

nice dust!!

[peter_evans4]

<p>Stuart, you're right about the "aji". Actually I didn't know if the

combination was pronounced bokemi or bokeaji, but <a

href="http://www.photo.net/mjohnston/column49/">this

English-language column</a> (with others) tells me it's the latter.</p>

[stuart_richardson]

Well, I know on Chinese menus they always have that character after certain types of food

and it means "style", so perhaps it means something like boke style. Anyway, thanks for

the link.

[steve_chan5]

...there's just no pleasing some people...

[EricM]

Some people? Steve, it�s riddled with dust, who�s that going to please? You?

[steve_chan5]

Eric,

 

Hmmm, I have to say, you seem to be taking things a lot more seriously than I am. Yep, there's dust. Did I make an effort to clean it off? Yep. Did I fail? Yep. How serious was my response to Grant? Not very.

 

But, in all seriousness - I did make an effort to get rid of the dust (it was even worse before). But the amount of effort necessary seemed out of proportion to the relatively frivolous motivations for my posting.

[jorge]

Nokton Bokeh? Try a Summarit at f/4!<br><br> <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/2318913&size=lg"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2318913-md.jpg"></a><br>"the princess in her castle"<br>TMX on Xtol stock. M2, Summarit 50/1.5 @ f/4.<br>Click on image to visit my gallery page.

[jorge]

On the other hand, what can beat a Summicron 50 for bokeh?<br><br>

<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/2319018&size=lg"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2319018-md.jpg"></a><br><br>

HP5+ on HC 110. MP, Summicron 50 wide open.

Click on image to visit gallery page.

[scott squire nonfiction]

Hmm, not very often does a single picture make me want a lens, but this one does.

Nice.

 

I hope you'll give them a print (and then not mind if they don't love it as much as you

or others here do, as often seems to be the case with photographers' gift pics).