lorriman
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Hello,
My Ladyfriend and I have been dreaming of marriage possibilities, which are on a fairly far away horizon right now, but always worth having nice thoughts, don't you think? We aren't so old, but past 20 is a bit ripe, I reckon, for "girlfriend" and "boyfriend". Plus she is just too elegant and fun to be anything but a lady (teenagers generally aren't much fun).
Anyway, one fantasy is sitting in an Italian café outside the tomb of St Francis of Assisi, drinking our excellent espressos and I'm taking photo's of her with my pentax super me and she's taking pictures of me with her cute rangefinder. It's terrible, I know, and St Francis will be having quite the nasty turn. But the glow of self-indulgence hasn't quite left my thoughts yet, and so I'm now fishing around for the right rangefinder.
I'm not wealthy, however, and I am looking at the possibility of 50 or so kids, and so cheap is the order of the day. For that the Canonet seems to fit: cheap, but half-decent and is cute.
However, I appreciate the importance of the subject's backdrop and therefore that of bokeh, and it does seem to me that that the Canonet I would like to get, the f1.7, has quite distracting bokeh wide open. Trawling through the bokeh mega-thread made my heart sink. The f1.7 examples were near traumatising. However, as far as I know, bokeh usually improves on stopping down, which is my experience with the pentax-m 50/1.7 (good for bokeh at 2.8).
And so I am hoping that someone might have some Canonet f1.7 shots, known to be at f2 or f2.8, of busy backgrounds, specular highlights, lines and such like. As it happens I reckon these apertures are more practical apertures for interesting backgrounds, as with preserving some of the visibility of oof faces and expressions.
If anyone could oblige, I would be quite grateful. I haven't got very far with google or flickr.
My Ladyfriend and I have been dreaming of marriage possibilities, which are on a fairly far away horizon right now, but always worth having nice thoughts, don't you think? We aren't so old, but past 20 is a bit ripe, I reckon, for "girlfriend" and "boyfriend". Plus she is just too elegant and fun to be anything but a lady (teenagers generally aren't much fun).
Anyway, one fantasy is sitting in an Italian café outside the tomb of St Francis of Assisi, drinking our excellent espressos and I'm taking photo's of her with my pentax super me and she's taking pictures of me with her cute rangefinder. It's terrible, I know, and St Francis will be having quite the nasty turn. But the glow of self-indulgence hasn't quite left my thoughts yet, and so I'm now fishing around for the right rangefinder.
I'm not wealthy, however, and I am looking at the possibility of 50 or so kids, and so cheap is the order of the day. For that the Canonet seems to fit: cheap, but half-decent and is cute.
However, I appreciate the importance of the subject's backdrop and therefore that of bokeh, and it does seem to me that that the Canonet I would like to get, the f1.7, has quite distracting bokeh wide open. Trawling through the bokeh mega-thread made my heart sink. The f1.7 examples were near traumatising. However, as far as I know, bokeh usually improves on stopping down, which is my experience with the pentax-m 50/1.7 (good for bokeh at 2.8).
And so I am hoping that someone might have some Canonet f1.7 shots, known to be at f2 or f2.8, of busy backgrounds, specular highlights, lines and such like. As it happens I reckon these apertures are more practical apertures for interesting backgrounds, as with preserving some of the visibility of oof faces and expressions.
If anyone could oblige, I would be quite grateful. I haven't got very far with google or flickr.
