CRAZY, this doesnt prove anything, I can produce photos all day long from this lens that dont show bad bokeh too, and as I already atated, the RAW FILES at full size with NO processing, and the VIEWFINDER can easily reveal the bad bokeh.
This lens simply has very bad bokeh compared to most lenses or most Pentax lenses. The reason I know this is I have used hundreds of different lenses and dont really think about bokeh or check bokeh. But when I mounted this 85mm F2.0 Lens and focussed it for the first time near its minimum focus limit the out of focus behavior immeditately jumped out at me as being quite "weird" compared to most lenses and my test images that I posted reveal it AS WELL as the original captures and the OPTICAL behavior in the VF which of course eliminates any possibilty of any image processing causing the problem. Lastly, you guys seem to be missing the fact that BOKEH in an image that shows bokeh is on huge scale relative to the entire image and its not going to be signifiganty changed at all by normal image processing or reduced in size for web like fine itty bitty details are affected. jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:21 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: M85mm f2.0 bokeh Hi Bill, I'm glad you chimed in with those pics. On thing that a lot of people fail to realize is that the bokeh you see on a small web image tends to smooth out as the photo gets larger. So, if, for example, the bokeh looks marginally smooth and acceptable on an 800 x 600 pixel web image, it's going to look a lot better on a full-size print that's about 18-inches or so on the long side. Shel > [Original Message] > From: William Robb > A few days ago, Thibouille was asking > about the bokeh of the M85 f2 lens. My > recollection was that it was as smooth as > silk, but I hadn't really used it > recently, favouring the 77mm lens instead. > I decided to pull the 85 off the shelf to > remind myself of how much I > enjoyed it's rendering abilities. > Here then is a couple of shots taken > with the M85/2, one shot wide open, and > a similar shot taken at f/4. > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/m852bokeh/852bokeh.html > It is as smooth as I remember. > > Camera info: > K10, ISO100. -- 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
