Thanks, Klaus.
If I may make a suggestion - which may go against some of the shallow-DoF-bokeh-advocates, regarding the first paragraph in the Bokeh-section:
Bokeh is not about shallow DoF, but about the quality of out-of focus areas, both transitions and completely OOF-regions. This gets more difficult to show with smaller sensor lenses, and/or with smaller aperture lenses, but is not necessarily inherently related to large aperture lenses anyway.
IMO, some great examples are the Canon TS-Es, which are all mostly relatively small aperture lenses, but provide incredibly smooth OOF transitions and generally have great bokeh.
I haver added an example here, which I use when showing people what a tilt-shift lens allows one to do beyond the miniaturisation effect, and which was shot with an APS-C camera and the older 24 mm F/3.5 Canon TS-E, wide open, IOW, effective FF-equivalent F-stop of F/5.6 (3.5 * 1.6).
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These lenses do not have problems with long, sharp-edged items either, like blades of grass in the (relative) distance, where other lenses have a very busy characteristics; these lenses still show very smooth transitions, despite being small aperture lenses.
In short, my suggestion would be to rephrase the bokeh-paragraph, as nice bokeh can be achieved at almost any aperture
, although it is easier to show at larger apertures, with larger aperture lenses designed for and used with larger sensors.
Kind regards, Wim
If I may make a suggestion - which may go against some of the shallow-DoF-bokeh-advocates, regarding the first paragraph in the Bokeh-section:
Quote:Micro-Four-Thirds may not be the hot-spot for shallow depth-of-field applications yet there's still some potential if you can keep a fairly close focus distance - so let's have a look at some details.
Bokeh is not about shallow DoF, but about the quality of out-of focus areas, both transitions and completely OOF-regions. This gets more difficult to show with smaller sensor lenses, and/or with smaller aperture lenses, but is not necessarily inherently related to large aperture lenses anyway.
IMO, some great examples are the Canon TS-Es, which are all mostly relatively small aperture lenses, but provide incredibly smooth OOF transitions and generally have great bokeh.
I haver added an example here, which I use when showing people what a tilt-shift lens allows one to do beyond the miniaturisation effect, and which was shot with an APS-C camera and the older 24 mm F/3.5 Canon TS-E, wide open, IOW, effective FF-equivalent F-stop of F/5.6 (3.5 * 1.6).
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These lenses do not have problems with long, sharp-edged items either, like blades of grass in the (relative) distance, where other lenses have a very busy characteristics; these lenses still show very smooth transitions, despite being small aperture lenses.
In short, my suggestion would be to rephrase the bokeh-paragraph, as nice bokeh can be achieved at almost any aperture
, although it is easier to show at larger apertures, with larger aperture lenses designed for and used with larger sensors.Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....