Digital BW, The Print

on 9/7/2002 9:13 AM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 16
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:06:42 -0400
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
> Subject: RE: RE: Shooting digital vs. film
> 
>> My gut reaction to this is that it is BS. (the bokeh).
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> What's there to be BS about?  It's a fact that bokeh exists, and it's a fact
> that different lenses render the bokeh differently...it's just simple fact.
> Now, whether that aspect of the image is important to you or not is another
> issue, but bokeh it self is hardly BS.
> 
> Austin



my original post was:

> 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.


My point being that at first I would have been skeptical, but I now see,
understand, and believe in the bokeh. Was this not clear in the post? Or did
you stop reading after the first sentence?
 
-Bruce