I know you all love a bit of bokeh

[Robin Harrison]

So here's a bokeh fest for you to feast your eyes on. I think I'll give you a few hours to have a guess at the optic! It was shot at or near wide open, and pretty near the close focus.

Personally I like the overall feel of the out-of-focus appearence. I think the rendering of the figure in the middleground is nice and subtle. As for the specular highlights, I think the brighter lightsources produce nice round white dots, where as the series of lightsources near the foreground figure's face are a little distracting.

 

[teemu.laine]

J-8?
Just a guess.

 

[Frank Granovski]

Very bokehful, though it would 've been nice to see the pretty young face. 🙂

I'm not qualified to guess which lens was used. 😎

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

50 CV Nokton ?

Nice shot, by the way.

 

[Robin Harrison]

Good try guys, but I can tell you it's wider than a 50. And Frank: fear not, her face will make many appearances in my gallery as and when I get my scanning sorted! 😉

 

[laptoprob]

Some kind of Sonnar I guess...

Rob

 

[Robin Harrison]

Some kind of Sonnar I guess...

Rob

Interesting...any Sonnar qualities you see in particular? Wrong, by the way!

Another clue: it is an M-mount lens.

 

[teemu.laine]

Zeiss 35mm?

 

[laptoprob]

Sonnar qualities

Well, I wrote my bit before you revealed that the optics were wider than 50mm.
But Sonnar qualities, obviously, the smooth out of focus bits. Maybe a Sonnar makes the highlights even smoother, I haven't seen results from mine yet...

cheers, Rob.

 

[einolu]

I have to say second vote for the new zeiss 35.

I dont think its a sonnar design because the bokeh would be much rounder and smoother, there might also be less contrast.

 

[doubs43]

I guess it's a 1955 35mm f/3.5 Summaron, serial number 128853...... shot wide-open, of course! 😀

Seriously, the bokeh is very nice. I like the cropped version best.

Walker (With tongue in cheek)

 

[Norway]

This is a picture with some kind of out of the ordinary feel. There is a 3d feeling and calm quality. I've heard about some leica-lens 3d characeristics, maybe this is it?

I am also waiting for an m6+50mm to start up rangefinder photography. So I am Quite new in this forum, and very eager to get started an submitting some work..
I might also be influenced by a 1/3 of a bottle of red spanish wine for dinner, but anyway there is a special feeling in this picture, making me sad I was not there.
So: great picture, but I will not dare to guess the optics.

🙂

Hans J Rore

 

[Jungle Jim]

From counting the angles on the out of focus lights, it looks like the lens has ten aperture blades. Maybe Canon 35mm f/2 lens?

 

[eskorpid]

My guess is Zeiss Planar 35/2 . . .
It's very sharp and sweet

nondas

 

[Todd.Hanz]

VC 40mm uncoated?

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Alright, since I was totally wrong the first time 🙂

How about 40/cron or 40/rokkor ?

 

[laptoprob]

The 40 Rokkor has sharper edged blur circles, at least mine did.

Rob

 

[Nuno]

I can only guess it's "goooooood one", the lens that is.
As to the location, i'm almost 100% sure this was shot at the Brasileira Café in Lisbon.
Am I right?

 

[aizan]

35mm cron asph?

 

[back alley]

tell us soon...or i'm deleting this thread!!


😉