The ultimate Bokeh thread; pics please

[Tuolumne]

Summilux Asph 35mm @f1.4 on R-D1, ISO 1600 @ 1/15.

/T

 

[Krosya]

from Canon 50/1.2 LTM at 1.2:

 

[deepwhite]

Bokeh is always better on film than in digital. Yet there is one shot I like a lot. Noctilux + R-D1s. It looks like the fan was swirling everything behind it.

 

[Uwe_Nds]

Some very interesting bokeh here:
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh

Gettin' ready already for Valentine's Day.

Cheers,
Uwe

 

[Todd.Hanz]

Uwe,
pretty cool idea, nice idea for portraits.

Todd

 

[venchka]

Old bokeh

Old bokeh

Really old bokeh.

First Christmas cactus blossom, November 30, 2008

Circa 1913 6" (more or less) Bausch & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear. 4x5 Ilford HP5+

Merry Christmas, Y'all!

 

[gohaj]

epson rd-1s with voigtlander 35/1.4 S.C.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/singaporepictures/3105106770/

 

[Ken Ford]

An evil slr - Nikkor 80-200/2.8D, current 2 ring version. 200mm, f/2.8.

 

[Ken Ford]

Summicron 35/2 ASPH, Fuji 800 Superia, 1/8 @ f/2.8.

 

[PhotoMat]

Leitz/Minolta CL with 40/2 Rokkor

 

[manojd]

Don't remember the lens, but I think it was summicron 90/2 on the Epson R-D1.

 

[M2user]

Take a look at some of the photo's of ROGVON on this Flickr website taken using Canon 50mm F1.2 LTM on a Leica M8.
Some nice colour and BOKEH here !!!!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/canon50mmf12ltm/

 

[SergioGuerra]

Evil TLR...Mamiya C330+80mm (very close focus)

 

[dll927]

after 26 pages: Can anyone give me an iron-clad definitition of exactly what "bokeh" means? I defy you to find it in the dictionary.

 

[dll927]

Update - I did find it with some help from Google. It seems to mean the quality of out-of-focus areas produced by a lens under shallow depth-of-focus conditions.

Now explain that to Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and any number of others. Except that they probably didn't have the problem, since they took most of their pictures at f/32.

 

[mcgrattan]

Rollei AFM35. XP2 film.

 

[JeffGreene]

Our very own Al Patterson

Our very own Al Patterson

RD-1 w/ 35 F2 'cron

 

[deepwhite]

I've edited it with iPhoto, but the "bubbles" in the bokeh was there from the very beginning.

Camera: Epson R-D1s
Lens: Dallmeyer Super-Six Projection 1 3/4" f1.9 @ f1.9
Color tone changed with iPhoto

 

[ferider]

Cool that this thread is still going.

Please do remember to post lens info.

So, please post example pictures, of what you think is good and bad bokeh,
which lens at which aperture you used, and why you like/dislike the lens'
OOF performance.

Thanks,

Roland.

 

[hans voralberg]

Bronica Zenzanon-PE 75mm f2.8 @ f2.8 on Velvia 100, Bronica ETRSi