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Strange Bokeh lenses
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Bokeh : In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. (wikipedia)

Hi all, I want to share with you in this thread, experience with strange, weird, and uncommon bokeh lenses. Not just "good" bokeh, there is a lot of thread about the best bokeh lens, but strange one.

Please post here your picture with the complete name of your lens it will be of interest for many of us (I hope)

(my apologizes for by bad english, I could write better in French, but I guess that there are more English readers here than French one Wink )

Lets go Laughing

Nikon D3 Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm f/1,5





Nikon D3 FJW Industries Inc. Mt Prospect 90mm f/1.0



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One I just found out about it: Color-Ennalyt f1.9/50mm








The well known Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 1.5/75mm




Kinoptik f1.9/32mm






KOWA f1.1/37.5mm





Cooke Kinic f1.9/1"







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Last one is exceptional Klaus ! I love it!


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xoxixox wrote:
Bokeh : In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. (wikipedia)


you've forgotten to add this from the same source:

Origin:
The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality". The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.

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Great idea for a new topic! There should be an epilepsia warning in the topic subject field Laughing

A lot of these lenses give so ugly bokeh I honestly don't understand what photographic use they are good for other than photographing your mother-in-law.

My alltime favorite for hair-raising bokeh is the Meyer Görlitz 100/2.8 Trioplan, see here http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellysereda/3650959866/


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Prediction: soon somebody will play 'ring around the rosy' with their worst mirror lens Laughing


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Rollei 1.4/35 has a triangular stop down bokeh.

Industar-61 L/Z has a star-like stop down bokeh.

You can create your own bokeh too. Wink


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Maybe the OP should mention that YOU HAVE TO SHOW IT IN AN IMAGE and not just mention that "I have heard that a friend of my sisters nephew heard that there is a lens...bla bla" Wink


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Thanks for reminding me..

Here shots using my CELESTRON 250mm mirror lens - donuts anyone?







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I really like the yellow coneflower photo with 'rainfall' of doughnut bokeh background!

The single well-defined ring with the roses is very clever! Very Happy


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Well, these shots were "designed" to bring out that ring-shaped bokeh, but the one in the roses was a pure coincidence! Great also for purely graphic effects...



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very nice bokeh,
thank for sharing


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Canon XI f1.3/75mm Xray lens






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Kinoptik f2/25mm lens






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Carl Zeiss Jena Tevidon f1.9/35mm







Carl Zeiss Jena Tevidon f1.4/25mm







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Helios 44m-6 f 2.0



Im waiting for a helios 40 pic Smile


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Cosina Voigtländer Apo Lanthar f3.5/90mm











Cosina Voigtländer Apo Lanthar f4/180mm







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Canon FD 55/1.2 S.S.C. EF mount:


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Carl Zeiss Jena f0.75/50mm Xray lens







(a wineglass btw.)


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Klaus!

those 3 are amazing!

they look like tangerine Dream album covers from the 70s

( thats a good thing!)


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We must be about the same age then, I had these LPs and liked them!


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Ultra Micro Nikkor 55mm F2:


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Ai Nikkor 50/1.2S:


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He He Laughing Klaus, I knew you were going to post here some great pictures !!!

The Cooke Kinic f1.9/1" is amazing !!



Just a remember to all : like Klaus said, please show pictures, not just name of lenses, please calvin83 show us some pictures

And I think the 2 Voigtländer Apo Lanthar don't give so strange bokeh, my favorite goes for the Cooke Kinic by now !!

let's continue Laughing


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Canon XI 75mm f/1.3



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