If either of you decides that your 40/2.0 is a crappy lens (technical term)
and are ready to throw it in the trash, I'll take it off your hands for a
paltry sum... <g>
I can't believe what they sell for... but I don't think that's driven by the
bokeh characteristics. Perhaps the 'bokeh' quality of a lens is in some way
related to its maximum aperture...? or the number of elements used for
correction...? I've read some comments that the best bokeh comes from lenses
of few elements and relatively slower maximum apertures e.g. 50/3.5 CV
Heilar, Leica 50/2.0 Summicron, 75/3.5 Rollei Xenotar (Rolleiflex lens).
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 4/9/03 1:58 AM, Richard F. Man at richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> At 01:49 AM 4/9/2003 -0700, Moose wrote:
>> I'm not sure what this is supposed to tell me. What looks one way at
>> enormous magnification may look another when smaller. Certainly this whole
>> business of looking at downsized and jpeged images makes some evaluations
>> pretty difficult. Maybe a jpeg2 would help?
>
> Exactly. I am just saying that lets not judge the 40/2 based on one jpg :-)
> It is by no mean a great lens, but I do love the size.
>
>> However, I love the close-up as an abstract image on its own merits, esp.
>> the top half.
>
> :-) Ah.... now this proves that photography is an art form for sure :-)
>
>> Moose
>>
>> Richard F. Man wrote:
>>
>>> Not so fast. I am still incline to think that it's an artifact of some
>>> Photoshop operations, may be downsizing from the original 4000 DPI to the
>>> 800 pixels (across) image. Here's a full size crop of the flower:
>>>
>>> http://www.imagecraft.com/richard/img007-enlarge.jpg It's huge > 2.6 megs
>>> (hence it is on ImageCraft, rather than dragonsgate), but I think you
>>> will see that the original is really better. There are some color
>>> artifact that comes from the conversion to sRGB space but you can see the
>>> harsh lines are not as bad.
>>
>>
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