I am almost certain that it's the lens, I have tried it on a bunch of subjects under many different lighting conditions and it always looks real odd when focussing and none of my other lenses do anything like this, so I would say in this case its just a bad bokeh type lens. I am going to do some further tests changing aperture used to find the point where the bokeh becomes accepatable. Good thing is you cant forget when focussing it. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 3:52 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Worst Bokeh ever in a non-mirror Pentax Lens? Yep, it's bad. But I've found that bright colors frequenly result in bad bokey. So too, background elements that are too close to be rendered creamy. I believe the quality of bokeh is 95% subject matter and only 5% lens. So I'd have to see a lot of pics from this lens to judge. I once owned it, and I don't recall feeling bad about the results, but it was a long time ago, and I can't point to any specific results right now. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I bought a Pentax SMC-M 85mm f2.0 > lens 20 months ago and tried it > for the first time today ( I know, > the buy/try delay is very long!). > > Anyway, its very sharp stopped down > a little bit, excellent contrast, no > distortion, little if any CA, > but damn the bokeh looks like > crap to me. I wouldnt wan't to use > this for any bokeh dominant type pix... > > I havent read or heard this anywhere. > Whats the concensus? I have posted > a photo shot wide open, look at > the background and tell me what you > think? > > I even noticed some specular highlights > can create ring like bokeh found on mirror > lenses (not seen in this photo) which was > pretty shocking. > > http://www.jchriso.com/temp/85MM01.jpg > pentax smc-m f2.0 at F2.0, 1/4000 sec > on istDS body. > > JCO > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
