Digital BW, The Print

Here are some examples of bokeh.  The upper left portrait and 
upper right  food shot were both taken with the Noctilux at f1.0.  
The lower right statue was made with a Zork tilt adaptor and a 
Rodenstock Rodagon 105mm enlarging lens at 5.6.

http://www.culturalvisions.com/newsite/pages/recentWork/index.
html 

Sorry for the long link.  You may have to cut and paste.  Or hit 
"recent work" at:

http://www.culturalvisions.com

FYI, the other two non panoramas on this page were also shot 
with the Noctilux at F1.0.  Bokeh is less of an issue in them.

Thanks, Mitch, for the 3 illuminating posts and quotes.  I will 
check into photo.net for your examples.

Frank

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Mitch Alland 
<malland@m...> wrote:
> To: "culturalvisions" <fmward@h...> 
> 
> >Bokeh gets 
> >good when your out of focus area is way out of focus.
> 
> That's true when you create washes of color, or of tones in 
B&W, as with the Noctilux at f/1. On the photo.net Leica forum 
there is an execellent example of bad bokeh by Doug Herr, a 
wildlife photographer: it's a picture of small bird with the o-o-f 
grass and bushes in the background with ugly "two-line" bokeh. 
In his posting, Doug Herr states that he could improve the bokeh 
with that lens by throwing the background completely out of 
focus; but he goes on to state that in his photography he wants 
to show the environment of the bird so, over the years, he has 
selected telephoto lenses with good bokeh.
> 
> --Mitch