Digital BW, The Print

Austin, Don't tell Mike Kravitt he gets useless pictures with his mamiya
because the lenses don't have Bokeh!  

What a nitpicking subject. I bet most Landscape photographers couldn't
care less about bokeh. Show me some evidence where leica and zeiss
intentionally design their lenses to have great bokeh!!!

J

Bruce wrote:
> 
> on 9/6/2002 9:45 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> 
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:46:07 -0400
> > From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
> > Subject: RE: Shooting digital vs. film
> >
> >
> >> Leica and Contax lenses once were the best in the world. That's no
> >> longer true. Today, several lenses can and do produce sharper images
> >> than Leitz.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The fact is, most Leitz and Zeiss lenses DO have better "bokeh" than most
> > any other manufacturers lenses.  They design them that way intentionally.
> >
> > Austin
> 
> My gut reaction to this is that it is BS. (the bokeh).
> 
> A few months ago I attended a local B&W digital meeting and showed some
> prints.  Without mentioning what camera was used, Antonis picked out some of
> my  photos  and said they weren't taken with an SLR. He was right on each
> one. They were taken with a Kodak Retina IIIc.
> 
> About the Fuji lenses--they don't look so bad to me, but I get the point.
> 
> -Bruce
>