The kind of bokeh only a mother could love ...

[Flyfisher Tom]

Came across this photo on a pnet thread.

Yikes ... never seen anything like it before

http://www.photo.net/bboard/big-imag...ad_id=20601984

Sonnar 50/2

[eric]

Originally Posted by Flyfisher Tom

http://www.photo.net/bboard/big-imag...ad_id=20601984

Sonnar 50/2

I had to take an aspirin after that shot. My head is still dizzy.

Though bokehful, it looks rather strange. If only a mother could love this then she must be either twisted or blind or both.

[cp_ste.croix]

bleh...that made me a little nauseous.

[JoeFriday]

it's bee-yoooo-tiful.. you guys just have no taste

[Gabriel M.A.]

Originally Posted by JoeFriday

it's bee-yoooo-tiful.. you guys just have no taste

I concur

[zuikologist]

Originally Posted by JoeFriday

it's bee-yoooo-tiful.. you guys just have no taste

Have to agree - gorgeous fireworks.

[terrafirmanada]

It is like a techno beat that you cannot get out of your head..........Thanks.........

[JoeFriday]

reminds me of that song by Janet Jackson... "Gimmie a beat! Oh. You. Nasty. Bokeh... Oh you nasty bokeh!"

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Oh Geez Brett

That is a funky kind of bokeh. Sort of what you would see in old TV cameras

[yossarian]

In the minority, as usual. This is fantastic, but very tame compared to my Helios 85mm, which is really trippy. I wish all my lenses could produce bokeh like this.

[dgray]

Almost looks like it was Photoshopped to look like that artificially!

[pvdhaar]

That Sonnar is almost as bad as a mirror lens..

[BJ Bignell]

It's wild, but not as nice as swirly vertigo bokeh, IMO...

[sf]

Christmas lights

[jaapv]

Bokeh also seems to mean confusion. Very apt.

[drmatthes]

Yip, nice one!

From a more theoretical point of view, if you are looking for Bokeh - try primitive lenses at large apertures.

I love my Dacora Digna with Dacora Anastigmat 4.5/70 (ok, a point & shoot 6x6, not a rf). It's got all the old "qualities" like vignetting at the very large and very small apertures, and a gorgeous "coma" - forming all the highlights that are out of focus into little comets with the tails in the same direction around the center - nauseating!

I think part of the charm of the really old master photographs (Fox Talbot, Fenton, Hill, Lartigue) is due to internal lens restrictions (plus long exposure times).

So go for ISO 25 and a coke bottle bottom or rather a lensbaby in front of your camera...

http://www.lensbabies.com/

(At least I prefer that one over, lets say, a Holga, because I keep control of the result through the finder of my SLR)

I'm also thinking of buying one of these 80 mm industry achromats and put it in front of my macro bellows to have a portrait lens like the old guys used it. Or as Prof. Vogel puts it in his book of 1926, "try a spectacle glass, it may well suffice for portrait purposes".

Jesko
___________________

2006 AD
800 yrs Dresden
80 yrs Zeiss Ikon

[vha]

Absolutely fascinating, but not in the right direction

vha