icuneko Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Check out the two flower photos in this site and you will see that Leica doesn't have a monopoly on excellentbokeh: http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/olympus_25_2p8_samples/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug herr Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Leica has never had a monopoly on pleasing bokeh, and even a mirror lens can be made to show good bokeh if the conditions are right. I wouldn't say the photos posted at dpreview show particularly good bokeh, some of the background elements show a double-line effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lazzari Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 They're not the "buttery" smooth out of focus characteristics attributed to many Leitz optics. I agree with Doug, the lower left dark portion of the rose photo & the brown stem/stick of the other exhibit the harsh line effect that he speaks of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_hahn Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 yeah... I thought most showed kind of Canon-like tense bokeh, even when you can't see double lines or anything... I don't really look for classic good or bad bokeh... more the sense of peacefulness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_chan4 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I once saw a shot taken by a Leica with utterly ugly bokeh to a point where the bokeh became the centre of attention. I am sure it was a rare case by surely Leica doesn't guarrantee nice bokeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 How finicky (and critical) we have become! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_jovic Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Some really cheap lenses have great bokeh and some really expensive lenses have terrible bokeh. So what? lenses are different and you judge each one by whatever qualities matter to you, be they price, sharpness, bokeh, manufacturer, country of manufacture, speed, whatever, the list goes on. JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icuneko Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 Indeed "How finicky (and critical) we have become!" I find the large rose in the background dreamy smooth. I didn't take out a pixel microscope and look for double-lines, etc. Nor do I look at individual things in isolation. Rather I was just initially impressed by the way the bokeh contributed to an overall sense of pleasing out-of-focus background in the total image. To paraphrase a saying about music from a great jazz player whose name my aging gray cells can't recall: 'If it looks good, it IS good." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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