The ultimate Bokeh thread; pics please

collum said:
90mm preasph summicron

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That's a really good portrait.

And the bokey is the way I like it - it tells me something about the environment without any distracting details.
 
IMHO, close-ups do not count, even mosquito-sensor sized small p&s digital cameras have considerable bokeh when doing macro shots. Personally I consider a lens to be "good" bokeh capable when there's a remarkable bokeh if the focus plane is at least 1.5+ meters away from the lens - i.e. half of human body lenght fits into frame and is still very well isolated with DoF. If you discount very long teles actually there are very few lenses that can bring that "monster" bokeh at those scales and distances in 35mm format (with the exceptions of i.e. f1.2 and f0.95 lenses), interestingly mostly only MF and LF combo lenses seem do the trick the best as shown in this thread. Especially those oldschool designs, tessars and some USSR lens desings seem to have loads of that bokeh "character", swirls 'n all.

Some Pentax 6x7 105mm f2.4 (equiv 50mm f1.2 on 35mm gear):


Himba tribe girl by tsiklonaut, on Flickr


Takumar 400mm f4 (equiv of roughly 200mm f2 on 35mm):


Autumn Vibe by tsiklonaut, on Flickr
 
According the 1st post...
Bokoh that renders a 3d effect, is the underling theme as I understand.

I just recently bought a J9 Circa 1953, (85mm f/2 Sonnar Clone for the Kiev RF)
And I took it a local fishing and trail Park to give it a spin.. (on my Olympus OM-D E-M5).

I think these 2 photo show a nice 3d effect.
probably f/5.6 at close focused distance.


Jupiter 9 (85mm f/2 Kiev RF) Samples par Peter Arbib, on ipernity


Jupiter 9 (85mm f/2 Kiev RF) Samples par Peter Arbib, on ipernity
 
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