The Bokeh Masters

[jkderby]

Canon 70-200L IS 1/50, f/2.8

[mareintx]

Pentax M 50mm 1.4

[Murph]

Any shots from the Pentax MF lenses?

[Drew Bedo]

White Rose

Zone VI (4x5 format) 90mm Nikkor, Tri-X

Backlit through window blinds.

[venchka]

Originally Posted by Murph

Any shots from the Pentax MF lenses?

Sorry. Nothing out of focus at the moment. I'll rectify that deficiency.

[DougC]

Any lens can produce Bokeh. How pleaseing it is to the viewer is a matter of personal taste as is evident in this thread.

[Murph]

Wayne, where are the Pentax MF lens photos?

[Mythstery]

Sorry for the facebook link

T3i - taken with nifty 50

[Jim Victory]

My favorite was the 200 f/1.8L but since I don't have one now here is the 500 f/4L IS and 135 f/2L.

[liubros]

Canon 24-105 F/4.0L

[FrayAdjacent]

Shot this one a week ago:



Shot using my 18-55 kit lense. This image is an HDR version of three different images. Don't recall what f-stop I used, but it came out pretty good!

[tml]

Here is another one taken with D700 and 85G.

[DougC]

Here's one from last spring. D300 with 500 AF-S from the window of my car.

[redisburning]

I'll play, I have a Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 58mm f1.2. I think this lens' reputation precedes it, but here are some bokeh shots anyway.

wide open:
forgive the focus on these, Im not very good at focusing SLRs and this was the first time I had ever used this camera

Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr


Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr

I love what this lens does stopped down too:

Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr


Untitled by redisburning, on Flickr

BTW if you hate bokeh I thoroughly recommend the ZM planar 50/2; of all of my lenses it has the least obtrusive bokeh and it just sort of hides in the back and draws you to the subject.

[tml]

Taken with Leica M9 and a 90 Summicron.