[Rollei] Re: Bokeh

[Eric Goldstein <egoldste >]

"Philippe Tempel" wrote:

> bokeh relies on a lens spherical aberration.  So in
> essence photographers don't want a perfect lens (if it
> existed).  They want one that renders the edges of out
> of focus objects to be fuzzy.  Interesting aesthetic
> point of view.

Philippe -

Don't mean to get metaphysical on you, but how does one approach defining a
"perfect lens?" For some shooters and some subjects, a lens close to
'perfect' may well have some uncorrected spherical... Tessars do...


Eric Goldstein

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