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How bokeh it is? Angenieux 135mm f3.5
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:44 pm
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Hello everybody,

I've just test this lens by portrait. I don't know much about the quality of bokeh. Could anyone advise me for the bokeh of this lens, good or bad?

Thank you for sharing.



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Laughing



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also include the quality of this lens too. Very Happy



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Shocked



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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:57 pm
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Everything looks EXCELLENT to me.
I mean, bokeh, lens, and all... Wink

Seriously, one of the best bokeh I ever saw


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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:59 pm
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Hi orio, thank you for your comment.



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Another model.



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I've heard, in general, that Angenieux telephoto lenses all have nice bokeh...
The 200mm lens is also well known.


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BTW, you have a very beautiful model.... Laughing


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last pics.

Camera : Panasonic DMC L1, all pictures F-stop is 5.6 except the 2 last pictures F-stop is 4 , use reflex, take pictures in JPEG.

Thank you for all comments.






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huhging, thank you very much for your good details.

This picture is for you. Laughing


Lens: Pentacon (15 blades) 135mm f2.8




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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:38 pm
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The bokeh of the Angenieux lens is exceptional together of the rendering of foreground which is extremely sharp without being "harsh". A really great lens who commands high prices for real reasons.

Then its "cheaper" Pentacon brother isn't so bad after all Wink


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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:33 pm
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great result KhanX! superb models!
you are the master of nice flowers
maybe just a little to much sharpening, the hairs look like hay


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Beautiful...er...lens !

The bokeh looks very good, mostly fades gently without too much of a sharp edge, and that only sometimes. There are also no distracting patterns.

So where do you get all these lovely girls ? Do you have a model agency ?


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Thanks a lot, A G Photography.

poilu, I like portrait photography so I try to take pursuade my girl-friends to take a pictures. Oh, it's to much sharpening as you said, thank you for remind me.

luisalegria, thank you for the descriptions of good bokeh, Very Happy I'm not a model agency but I have many girl-friends. Laughing


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KhanX wrote:
I'm not a model agency but I have many girl-friends

so you are a real Artist Very Happy
don't forget to share with us all your beautiful shots


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poilu wrote:
KhanX wrote:
I'm not a model agency but I have many girl-friends

so you are a real Artist Very Happy
don't forget to share with us all your beautiful shots


And some of the girl-friends if at all possible! Laughing
(just kidding!)


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KhanX wrote:
huhging, thank you very much for your good details.

This picture is for you. Laughing


Lens: Pentacon (15 blades) 135mm f2.8




Your gir...uh...picture drives me crazy.
I want that gir...uh....lens.
Was that pentax?


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Beautiful portraits, pretty young lady all what we would like to see Wink


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Bokeh, shmokeh, thats a beautiful model.

By the way the Bokeh is very nice too. The important thing is that its pleasing to the eye - soft, smooth and round is normally what you look for . But the test is this. If it looks good. .....Then it is!


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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:59 am
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BTW here is some bokeh from some tests I was conducting. Mine is OK but not quite as good as yours.

First a Nikkor 80-200 f4.5



Then an SMC Takumar 85mm f1.8



And again the SMC Takumar



Sorry - I did not quite nail the focus on the last image.

All shot on a Panasonic L1

I think one area in which your camera has an advantage is that the iris appears to be the "old fashioned" type that is more or less perfectly round. other things being equal this always gives smoother bokeh.


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Try bokeh test before green leafs or grass from a few meters distance it will be beautiful creamy virtually with any lenses.


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Thank you for sharing the photos. I've heard good things about Angenieux lenses, and now I know why. Your photos look very sharp with nice bokeh. The Pentacon lens looks good as well.

--Geoff


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Even more than for bokeh, I am impressed by the vividness and depth of the focused parts.
The Pentacon's bokes is almost as good as the Angenieux's, but the focused parts look more flat to me.
I look mostly at the hair, in the Angenieux pictures the curls feel 3D, in the Pentacon picture, not as much.


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Thank you poilu, I try to take many pictures but I'm very busy now. Crying or Very sad

Thank you peterm1, I have Pentax SMC Takumar too that I'll share this pictures from this lens.

Thank you Attila for your always good comment.

Thank you for your comment, Geoff.

Thank you Orio, your comment impress and drive me to look for that you said.
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