Digital BW, The Print

Good God Austin, who cares what an out of focus area looks like? I only learned
there actually was such a thing as bokeh about a year ago. Imagine!!! 45
years as 
a professional photographer and I'd never heard about it. Ever. Never
read a single
word about it, ever. I guarantee you that 99 percent of the people who
look at pictures wouldn't know bokeh from a speed bump.  I will
certainly agree that if your'e obsessed with it, it would be important
to you. I know, after finally reading that it existed, that a few
japanese photgraphers really think its very important. But it isn't to me.

Jerry

> Sigh, Jerry.  Sharpness isn't everything to everyone, like it is to you.
> Fuji MF lenses are amongst the sharpest lenses available, but the out of
> focus rendering of these lenses is miserable.  It makes the images difficult
> to look at, and IMO, makes the lenses unusable for anything you want decent
> "bokeh" with.

Who cares about bokeh? Not I.
 
> The fact is, most Leitz and Zeiss lenses DO have better "bokeh" than most
> any other manufacturers lenses.  They design them that way intentionally.

I bet they do! How is it that no one ever wrote about it for the last 45
years or so?
How come you've never seen an ad for a camera lens bragging about it's
great bokeh?

Egad, enough already!