Bokeh examples

[Erik van Straten]

On this website: https://flashbackcamera.jp/photogallery/?title_list_type=alpha Bokeh examples are available for practically all photographic lenses.


The list is too long to copy.



Erik.

 

[NaChase]

Whoa, this is cool. Thanks!

 

[aizan]

Wow! How'd you find this site? I'm going to be spending a lot of time looking around.

 

[jmanivelle]

Thanks a lot for sharing Erik !
Wow !
Cheers, Jean-Marc.

 

[Erik van Straten]

My favorite is the Cooke Amotal. Never heard from this lens, but it is incredible.


Erik.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Interesting, thanks, though there are many “bokeh” lenses that aren’t there🙂 I’d imagine a complete accounting would be close to impossible. Good effort though.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Maybe they are still working on it.



Erik.

 

[jsrockit]

A symptom of our times?

 

[xayraa33]

My favorite is the Cooke Amotal. Never heard from this lens, but it is incredible.


Erik.

That lens was made by Cooke for the Bell & Howell Foton camera.

That camera turned out to be a bit of an overpriced flop at 700 USD in 1948 so a well known US camera store bought the surplus lenses and had them mounted in a roughly made aluminium helical body in LTM in Italy (and even a few were made to fit the Contax RF camera) and sold them with Leica cameras .. as there was some loophole where this camera store could sell a new Leica body with a non Leica lens for much less money than Leitz dictated to their US dealers for the usual Leica with a Leitz lens in the early 1950s.

 

[richardHaw]

the NOCT 😱😱😱

 

[Erik van Straten]

That lens was made by Cooke for the Bell & Howell Foton camera.

That camera turned out to be a bit of an overpriced flop at 700 USD in 1948 so a well known US camera store bought the surplus lenses and had them mounted in a roughly made aluminium helical body in LTM in Italy (and even a few were made to fit the Contax RF camera) and sold them with Leica cameras .. as there was some loophole where this camera store could sell a new Leica body with a non Leica lens for much less money than Leitz dictated to their US dealers for the usual Leica with a Leitz lens in the early 1950s.

The lenses were made by Taylor, Taylor and Hobson in 1948. They sell like hot sandwiches nowadays; the lens heads are placed on old Leica screw mount flanges to make them fit on digital cameras.

Erik.


Cooke Amotal:

 

[Geo Toreno]

Super cool!! Thanks for the link, Erik!.

 

[Erik van Straten]

A shot with my Amotal (1948), on film (Leica MP), full aperture:

 

[p.giannakis]

Congrats on your new lens Erik.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Congrats on your new lens Erik.

Thank you, Pan, this lens is incredible!


Erik.

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

What a wonderful lens (and excellent link)! - thanks very much Erik.

 

[jawarden]

On this website: https://flashbackcamera.jp/photogallery/?title_list_type=alpha Bokeh examples are available for practically all photographic lenses.


The list is too long to copy.



Erik.

What an interesting site. Thanks!

 

[Erik van Straten]

Leica MP, Cooke Amotal 2'' f/2, 400-2TMY.

Erik.

 

[lynnb]

Congrats on the lens Erik - wonderful examples!

 

[tunalegs]

Another great site with tons, and tons, and tons of lenses from the pedestrian to the most exotic:


https://spiral-m42.blogspot.com/


Each blog post goes into a little history and sometimes the design of the lens.