I agree with all on this definition. There are good and bad bokehs, good bokehs are very smooth blurs, and they are caused mainly by the number of blades your shutter diaphragm has in your lens.
As a rule, a nine blade is better and more expensive. However, there are special design lenses that are not so expensive, but produce cosmic quality bokeh, eg Lenbabies. There are no blades to it, just a continuous circle, producing the smoothest bokeh one can find.
Bokeh can best be judged by photos of light sources, then you can tell by the light in the photo, whether its circular(good) or hexagonal(not so good).
I agree with all on this definition. There are good and bad bokehs, good bokehs are very smooth blurs, and they are caused mainly by the number of blades your shutter diaphragm has in your lens.
As a rule, a nine blade is better and more expensive. However, there are special design lenses that are not so expensive, but produce cosmic quality bokeh, eg Lenbabies. There are no blades to it, just a continuous circle, producing the smoothest bokeh one can find.
Bokeh can best be judged by photos of light sources, then you can tell by the light in the photo, whether its circular(good) or hexagonal(not so good).
...Even with the same lens, a blur in front of the subject and a blur behind the subject may exhibit very different qualities.
I never knew that, if its not too much trouble, I would really appreciate if you are able to show a picture with that exhibits this qualities. Thanks
bokeh is when a kid runs, trips and fallover, hitting himself on something hard and losing two front teeth.
er wait.. is that.. bokeh.. or bo-geh??
was having some fun with front bokeh though. not a fine example.. but..
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s227/edmwbabyangel/c78fcfbc.jpg
I never knew that, if its not too much trouble, I would really appreciate if you are able to show a picture with that exhibits this qualities. Thanks
I agree with all on this definition. There are good and bad bokehs, good bokehs are very smooth blurs, and they are caused mainly by the number of blades your shutter diaphragm has in your lens.
As a rule, a nine blade is better and more expensive. However, there are special design lenses that are not so expensive, but produce cosmic quality bokeh, eg Lenbabies. There are no blades to it, just a continuous circle, producing the smoothest bokeh one can find.
Bokeh can best be judged by photos of light sources, then you can tell by the light in the photo, whether its circular(good) or hexagonal(not so good).
lsisaxon said:Here is a website which talks about the bokeh from a DC-Nikkor 105/2. You can see that the bokeh for the front and the back are different.
http://www.stacken.kth.se/~maxz/defocuscontrol/
Not always true.Got some lenses such as Nikon 50mm f1.2 which are 9 bladed with quite bad bokeh.The cheap 50mm f1.8 has better bokeh...good bokehs are very smooth blurs, and they are caused mainly by the number of blades your shutter diaphragm has in your lens