Best bokeh I've ever seen..

[Keith]

I'm very myopic ... about -6 and I wear contact lenses. Without them in my entire world is bokeh!

 

[lynnb]

I haven't heard of a lens that has floaters... or is that just dust and bits of string between the elements?

 

[grouchos_tash]

I haven't heard of a lens that has floaters... or is that just dust and bits of string between the elements?

I did hear that bubbles meant a better quality lens 🙄

 

[rajmohan-fotograf]

I took this with a 58mm 1.9 Petval using Waterhouse stops

Love it but my eye's bokeh looks nothing like that.

This might be as close to what the human eye sees (at any one instant, it must be emphasized) as any photograph can depict. We see about a 1-2 degree zone of sharpness with the remainder of the field being un-sharp; it's only the marvel of rapid eye movement scanning the field at high speed, and the brain registering multiple 1-2 degree zones of sharp focus at extremely high speeds and stitching/focus-stacking them together to trick us into thinking that we're seeing a scene with multiple elements in focus. The ocular motor control and processing (both in terms of volume of data and speed) that is involved entirely humbles any feat of manmade engineering, including (dare I say) even the latest and greatest in photographic equipment.

 

[uhoh7]

I took this with a 58mm 1.9 Petval using Waterhouse stops

Love it but my eye's bokeh looks nothing like that.

Just guzzle a bottle of whiskey in 10 minutes, and crawl out to a leaf pile. You'll see it 😉

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I can't comment of what you see as bokeh if wearing glasses, yet, but I'm getting close to it year by year.
As of now the bokeh my eyes gives me is not 50 1.2 or more extreme 200 f4 with total smoothness of background.

I would say it is more like 50 2.8 to me on background bokeh, with UWA FoV. Of J-3, I-26M or any other lens with round aperture opening, which is same as "aperture" shape of human eye.

 

[mpaniagua]

My eyes can't focus to infinity. The bokeh has stars and I've also noticed that I get a double image from bright light sources. When I wear my glasses, they improve focus but sharpness, flare and contrast becomes poor.

Eyes must be the human equivalent of FSU optics, some great, some not so good.

Problably need some shimming? 😛

 

[Daryl J.]

Whenever I feel the need for Summilux bokeh, I just take my glasses off.
Saves the price of a Summi!

 

[seany65]

Was when I was driving home last night, and peered over the top of my glasses. The way everything when out of focus was just spectacular, with just a smooth soft transition, with no onion ring or moon clipped highlights.

Surely you mean "best bokeh you've not seen"?😕

Umm, you don't make a habit of looking over the top of your glasses while driving, do you?😱

 

[Tom A]

I'm very myopic ... about -6 and I wear contact lenses. Without them in my entire world is bokeh!

Keith, I know what you mean. My eyesight is currently around -8,75 (left) and -9,5 (right). It has been getting better with old age. In my youth it was -12!!!! My eye doctor told me that it would improve -but to get 20-20 eyesight I should try to live to 300 years of age! One advantage is the really sharp close up vision (3-4" inches). Comes in handy at camera swap meet -remove the glasses and peer closely -you can see even minute flaws in the finish.
Also without glasses - it is all bokeh!!!!!

 

[YYV_146]

I am very surprised that nobody has mentioned the Nikon DC series or the Sony 135mm STF. In particular the latter which is the technical definition of "perfectly smooth" bokeh, in the sense that the OOF circles don't have any hard edges at all.

 

[Huss]

Surely you mean "best bokeh you've not seen"?😕

Umm, you don't make a habit of looking over the top of your glasses while driving, do you?😱

1/ No

2/ I was stopped at a traffic light. 😉

 

[Keith]

Keith, I know what you mean. My eyesight is currently around -8,75 (left) and -9,5 (right). It has been getting better with old age. In my youth it was -12!!!! My eye doctor told me that it would improve -but to get 20-20 eyesight I should try to live to 300 years of age! One advantage is the really sharp close up vision (3-4" inches). Comes in handy at camera swap meet -remove the glasses and peer closely -you can see even minute flaws in the finish.
Also without glasses - it is all bokeh!!!!!

Indeed Tom ... without my contacts in detail at close quarters is amazing, provided my nose is a few inches away from what I'm looking at! 😀