Digital BW, The Print

On 9/7/02 2:15 PM, "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...> wrote:

> Martin, I hope someone who lists Bokeh as one of their Gods will put up
> a really good example of the same image, one taken with a lens with
> "bad" bokeh, and one with a lens that has simply Supergobslopsius bokeh.
> I want to see the actual difference.

Why see the difference...jerry...you won't believe it if you see it...just
send those useless Leica lenses...do you have my mailing address?


> In any case, I can't see a landscape photographer having any interest in
> an out of focus area, as there usually aren't any.

Well the only landscape bokeh that I sometimes like is a tree branch in
focus and the landscape in blur.
 
> I can just picture Ansel Adams, Just before taking his Moonrise over
> Hernandez picture yelling at his assistant: I can't take this picture,
> The lens on my camera doesn't have good bokeh!
> 
 
Now that is funny.  If you had taken a picture of Ansel yelling it (but of
course with excellent bokeh) it would be worth a mint!

:-)

Robert