The ultimate Bokeh thread; pics please

[kevin m]

150mm lens on mamiya 6:

Wow. I don't know about the bokeh, but you don't get tonality like that in 35mm!

Another from my first roll with the Canon 50/1.2. Fuji NPZ. This is at f2.0.

 

[venchka]

Nice Kevin. I can see why people like Fuji NPZ.

Nice Ryan!

I have a 150mm lens & a 6x7 body and some Fuji 120 NPZ. I need to get my act together and use all 3. At the same time even.

 

[edhohoho]

First outing with Konica M-Hexanon

First outing with Konica M-Hexanon

Konica 50/1.2 M-Hexanon Limited at f/1.2

 

[etrigan63]

One for the Holidays...
M8 + 75mm Color-Heliar, 1/45 s, f/2.5, ISO 640

 

[enochRoot]

thanks guys.

and yes wayne, you do! 😀

 

[Bingley]

I went up to the Sierra foothills last Saturday to try to catch some holiday spirit, and wound up in a candy store... Canon 50/1.5, Portra400NC:

 

[lin8810]

Leica R9 and APO 70-180mm/f2.8. Shot with Fujifilm Pro400H at 1/500s and wide open f2.8.

Developed and scanned in Costco. Please ignore the mark on the flim (what the...)

 

[peterm1]

Here is an example of not so good bokeh. I shot this (boring) shot simply to test the sharpness of a Takumar 300mm mounted on a Panasonic L1 with an adapter. Its sharp enough but I do not like the rather odd slightly harsh bokeh which has a kind of vertical linearity to it. Shot at around f 5.6 or f8.

 

[photorat]

What a start! Your first shot is wonderful, and the second has a... I'm not sure what to call it, a sort of monumental quality, with the view from below, the three-dimensional effect, and the marvelous pose you've captured.

Thanks, mjf! I really like the second shot, too. Like most of my good pics, I guess it was a bit of a fluke. But then, there's so much out of our control when taking pictures, I guess all good shots are.

Take care but above all, film, wherever you go!

Cheers,

Jeremy

 

[Keith]

I've discovered that the only way you can get bokeh on a 15mm Heliar is to shoot at minimum distance wide open ... which is only f4.5 ... even then with the depth of field this thing has you don't get much OOF! 😛

 

[StuartR]

Try having the background a bit further away. Here is one that is also close focus wide open with the Heliar. Please forgive the dust spots...I took this when at the Maine Workshops and their lab did the developing...it is like they dumped the vacuum cleaner's dust bag into the developer.

 

[Johann Espiritu]

I'll bite. Here are a couple with the CV 35/1.2:

 

[robster180]

Newbie...1st post

Newbie...1st post

here are the results from my 1st rolls with my 1st Leica on a recent holiday in Hong Kong. All taken on an M6+35/2 Biogon+Velvia

I particularly like the smokey reflections from the table surface in the foreground 1s/f2

Bokeh balls and rendered OoF colours tick my boxes 60/f4

30/f4
and some OoF colours 1s/f2

 

[hans voralberg]

I like the OOF one very much robster, fabulous pic

 

[john neal]

What Hans said - great pic.

Glad you finally figured it out 🙂

 

[robster180]

Hans - thanks, love your B&W window frame!

John Neal - Yes I'm Mac based so resorted to a Firefox browser and finally got it to work, thanks for your expertise and kind words!

 

[Letien]

Elmar 50/f2.8

 

[Marsopa]

Canonet QL17GIII

 

[jbf]

Canonet QL17GIII

Hahaha, that is awesome! I love this shot! So hillarious! Seriously this is amazing. Haha. I would love to have a copy of this. haha.

 

[hans voralberg]

Why ? Zuiko 50/1.4 is nice enough for me I think