03-06-2011, 02:42 PM
As Brightcolours said bokeh is the quality of the blur not the amount. If you look at some of the reviews here you will see a discussion on the quality. Unfortunately quality is not uniform for a given lens. There are certain lenses that are famous for producing very good bokeh in the background but very poor bokeh in the foreground (for example). The amount of blur might be the same but the quality changes dependent on various factors of the optical design.
As to canon vs nikon; no comments and quite frankly I think it is pointless debate. What matters (if you care about bokeh) is the lens you use and not the general performance of the line-up. Both systems have some real dogs and some very good performers. It used to be (in USA) that canon was significantly less expensive; I canon still tends to be less expensive but less so. About the only fact that seems to remain (in USA) is that canon-usa could care less if the item is 'grey' market and generally gives very good service; where nikon will go so far as to refuse to work on grey market items (even for $$$ - even if the person is visiting from europe and happens to have issues while in USA - second hand report; I personally avoid nikon more for the philosophy of the USA distributor than the quality of the equipment).
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Anyways I think nikon has some really nice equipment (but for me it is too heavy for my style). Canon also has some nice offering and it tends to weight a bit less <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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As to canon vs nikon; no comments and quite frankly I think it is pointless debate. What matters (if you care about bokeh) is the lens you use and not the general performance of the line-up. Both systems have some real dogs and some very good performers. It used to be (in USA) that canon was significantly less expensive; I canon still tends to be less expensive but less so. About the only fact that seems to remain (in USA) is that canon-usa could care less if the item is 'grey' market and generally gives very good service; where nikon will go so far as to refuse to work on grey market items (even for $$$ - even if the person is visiting from europe and happens to have issues while in USA - second hand report; I personally avoid nikon more for the philosophy of the USA distributor than the quality of the equipment).
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Anyways I think nikon has some really nice equipment (but for me it is too heavy for my style). Canon also has some nice offering and it tends to weight a bit less <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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