--- Jaros�aw Brzezi�ski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mortimer Snerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisa� / wrote:
<snip>
> > IMHO, at the top of the heap are the Canon EF
> 100mm f2
> > and Nikkor P 105mm f2.5.
<snip>
> I know it's subjective and thus please tell me if
> your statement that
> the Canon EF 100 f/2 and Nikkor P 105mm f/2.5 are
> "at the top of the
> heap" follows from your personal experience with
> those lenses?
Absolutely! Those are two of the best informal potrait
lenses there are, mainly because of their bokeh. If
you have a cluttered or distracting background,
opening up on one of those lenses to get shallow
depth-of-field is a great way of making it look like a
watercolor painting instead of a cluttered mess.
>>If yes, what other lenses did you compare them
against?<<
Everything else in my bag/collection (I collect older
SLR's and lenses, and use them all. EOS is my favorite
current AF system, mostly because of the
price/features ratio, but I am especially fond of
older manual focus Nikon 35mm SLR's.)
Large aperture short telephoto primes seem to rule the
roost in the bokeh department, no matter what system
you are talking about. Wides have too much DOF for
bokeh to have much meaning. Something about longer
zooms (+200mm) seems to give them strange/unpleasant
bokeh.
MadMat
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