Thanks Jerome. I tend to like lenses that soften without distorting. The lenses that seem to draw the most complaints in regard to boke, distort the background a great deal, yielding strange patterns. The degree of softness in the background is more a function of the spatial relationships of lens, subject, and background, rather than the way the lens delivers the image to the film plane or sensor. "Harsh" is sometimes used to characterize a background that is not completely out of focus. That's not the fault of the lens, but is instead a function of the composition. Paul
> > I tend to like the bokeh that this lens yields. It smooths > > without distorting. > > Paul > > Actually, that was my first thought on both of the photos that you've > posted as examples. In this one, in particular, > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3487689 > > DOF selection did you quite well. *Very* nice bokeh, IMHO. > > - Jerome >
