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Subject: [OM] Re: Ah, Bokeh! Or is it Hokey?
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:07:40 +0100
No

I couldn't say that one was better than the other.

Chris
On 26 Aug 2004, at 17:12, Walt Wayman wrote:

> Last summer I did a short series (about half a roll of Provia 100F) of  
> test shots to compare the 90/2 Zuiko and the 90/2.8 Tamron macros.  I  
> couldn't tell any real difference.  Now, since the bokeh subject has  
> reared its fuzzy head again, and because the 90/2 Zuiko is said by  
> many to have the most wonderful bokeh, I'm putting up a couple of  
> shots, one taken with each lens.  About the only things these lenses  
> have in common is that they both have nine-blade diaphragms.
>
> These are straight scans, with no sharpening or other adjustments  
> whatsoever, of a deliberatly chosen "difficult" subject in fairly  
> harsh lighting.  For some reason, although scanned at 2700 d.p.i.  
> before being JPGed down to 800 pixels wide, they look kinda "soft."  I  
> promise, though, that they are equally sharp and have oodles of  
> detail.  But anyway, I'm doing this only for the bokeh, so "soft"  
> don't much matter.
>
> If anybody can see any difference, I hope they'll 'splain it to me.  I  
> guess I'm just not all that sensitive, because bokeh has never been  
> that important to me.  Unless it's really bad and/or the subject is  
> really boring, I usually don't even notice it.
>
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID 
> -724214.html
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID 
> -724215.html
>
> Walt, the bokeh clod
>
>
<|_:-)_|>

C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.

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