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PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:29 pm    Post subject: Summicron bokeh Reply with quote
This was taken today with a Leitz 50mm f2 Summicron (rigid, rangefinder version) dating from the mid-60s. Aperture f4.

Very dull, flat light, damp and misty, temperature hovering around freezing. Really no colour in the countryside so I thought let's desaturate it and make it "B&W", just shades of gray everywhere. I did try tweaking the contrast but the results don't resemble the reality, so this is pretty much as it came from Capture 1 without saturation. The flower head in the foreground is actually sharp in the original. (Yes, there's a sensor mark just above it, the cross M8 owners have to bear)

"Good" bokeh is something indefinable and totally in the eye of the beholder, so I can't say if this is "good" "bad" or "indifferent - but it pleases me.




PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
bokeh smooth as silk; totally fits the scene and what you were trying to accomplish.


PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Stephen - a very smooth OOF rendition, but with this kind of "distance" background a lot of lenses will render in a similar way. The real boke champs (IMHO) are the ones that can take a busy and closer background and not make it a confusing mass. BUT - boke or OOF rendition is very much in the eye of the beholder and is a very personal thing, varying by picture/lens/subject etc ad infinitum. The picture is very successful by the way


patrickh


PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Patrickh - thanks for the comments. Bokeh/OOF effects (we could invent a new name - "Oofex") are indeed in the eye of the beholder. I think the whole topic could be a good subject for a doctoral research project!


PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:51 am    Post subject: Re: Summicron bokeh Reply with quote
scsambrook wrote:
This was taken today with a Leitz 50mm f2 Summicron (rigid, rangefinder version) dating from the mid-60s. Aperture f4.

Very dull, flat light, damp and misty, temperature hovering around freezing. Really no colour in the countryside so I thought let's desaturate it and make it "B&W", just shades of gray everywhere. I did try tweaking the contrast but the results don't resemble the reality, so this is pretty much as it came from Capture 1 without saturation. The flower head in the foreground is actually sharp in the original. (Yes, there's a sensor mark just above it, the cross M8 owners have to bear)

"Good" bokeh is something indefinable and totally in the eye of the beholder, so I can't say if this is "good" "bad" or "indifferent - but it pleases me.




The bokeh is simply wonderful, and very good sharp.
I would put one of these in my Canon 5D.
Is a leica, say not more. Congrats.


PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not only good bokeh - also a very good evocative image.


PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
Not only good bokeh - also a very good evocative image.


Yes sir, beautiful image. And a lens with a beautiful bokeh and very sharp.


PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well done!
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