bokeh on various medium - long telephoto lenses

[psychronos]

Tested using 2 SB-26 on M, S2 on M and exposure adjucted accordingly to each f-stop.

http://psychronos.com/images/031223_test_2.jpg

[Igor]

WOW! Great job! Thanks a lot for sharing.

[Serge]

Greta test series mate!

I hope to do a series soon on "bending the light", creating interesting shapes out of those bokeh patterns, using Iris Modifiers, which have worked well for me on film.


so much to do, so little time :)

[psychronos]

thanks for the reply, guys!

Serge: mate, I've always been wanting to make these myself, like they did back in the old days where one had insert diaphragms manually, but couldn't locate anything concerning the dimensions for this secondary diaphragm. I be interested to seen the results you have!

[Sneakyracer]

Wow, the nikkor 85mm f1,4 and the 100 micro lens produce the best color/contrast pleasing results, the 135mm f2 is also very close. :righton:

that 85mm f1.4 looks like a very very sweet lens.

[psychronos]

The performance of the 105 was a bit of a suprise as its bokeh is usually regarded to be quite 'hard'.

and yeah, the 85 is definitely one of my favourite lenses, one that stays in the bag at all times! :)

[Serge]

Originally posted by psychronos
thanks for the reply, guys!

Serge: mate, I've always been wanting to make these myself, like they did back in the old days where one had insert diaphragms manually, but couldn't locate anything concerning the dimensions for this secondary diaphragm. I be interested to seen the results you have!

The method I employ, is a little more simple, using FRONT OF LENS modifiers, maybe get a chance to do some over the weekend, after I rebuild my editing system first.
My NLE decided to crash last night, so its time for a major re install :o

[psychronos]

I'll pretend I know what a NLE is :confused: somthing to do with film editing?

[Serge]

Originally posted by psychronos
I'll pretend I know what a NLE is :confused: somthing to do with film editing?

NLE stands for Non Linear Editing;
as opposed to traditional linear tape to tape editing before computers took over.

I'm a happy boy again, my crash was not as fatal as I had feared,
lost some digitised DV footage which can be restored from tape :rockon:

[S_Leeper]

Thanks for the test--very informative.