Summicron 28 ASPH bokeh - is this right?

[rawlit]

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Hello all,

I've been wondering if bokeh I'm getting with my Summicron 28 is in line to what you are experiencing, see some samples below

Foliage and roof on the left side of first photo seem harsh, any thoughts? 

thank you

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[lct]

12 minutes ago, rawlit said:

[...] I've been wondering if bokeh I'm getting with my Summicron 28 is in line to what you are experiencing [...]

It is. No bokeh balls with sharp edges generally. No gaussian blur backgrounds either. Matter of tastes but good for me.

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[a.noctilux]

Could be "normal".

Anyway, 28mm lens is not great for "BOKEH" (or whatever good nice blurring areas, and I don't know what bokeh is) ...

[rramesh]

The 28 Cron is a wide f/2 lens. You can't expect much of a bokeh with it. Plus bokeh tends to vary from scene to scene, and each user perceives it differently.

 

[lct]

Typical Summicron 28/2 bokeh at f/2. 

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[M11 for me]

vor einer Stunde schrieb lct:

Typical Summicron 28/2 bokeh at f/2. 

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Wauh, beautiful image. I wonder what the TO really expects? What does he think is not nicely rendered in his images?

[lct]

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33 minutes ago, M11 for me said:

I wonder what the TO really expects? What does he think is not nicely rendered in his images?

Some (most?) people seem to like gaussian blur and ninja star bokeh nowadays. Perhaps the OP wanted to be reassured for not feeling like that .

[jakontil]

16 hours ago, lct said:

It is. No bokeh balls with sharp edges generally. No gaussian blur backgrounds either. Matter of tastes but good for me.

Interesting Ict, what’s actually like gaussian blur to be precise? Is it more pleasing? 

[JCR33]

I only started using 28mm Summicron recently and slowly noticing the unique character. Easy to get colourful and sharp images, bokeh is not the first thing you see. Great for street and landscape photography 

 

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20 minutes ago, jakontil said:

what’s actually like gaussian blur to be precise? Is it more pleasing? 

Matter of taste. See: https://firealpaca.com/en/topics/“Gaussian+Blur”+and+“Lens+Blur”

[jakontil]

12 minutes ago, lct said:

Matter of taste. See: https://firealpaca.com/en/topics/“Gaussian+Blur”+and+“Lens+Blur”

Thanks! Definitely not mine though 

[lct]

13 minutes ago, jakontil said:

Thanks! Definitely not mine though 

We are at least two .

[gotium]

I’ll admit I don’t like the look of it in that first photo. Odd-looking focal plane too, the car looks blurrier than the rocks at the edges of the frame, which are further away? The edges look strangely sharper than the rest of the frame.

[M11 for me]

vor 7 Stunden schrieb lct:

Matter of taste. See: https://firealpaca.com/en/topics/“Gaussian+Blur”+and+“Lens+Blur”

Oh, learned something again.

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6 hours ago, lct said:

We are at least two .

+1

[sarav]

I find it a good bokeh, not wonderful like an old lens and not boring like the 28 lux. It's a good bokeh for colour and very good for B&W street shots. The lens is a gem, super sharp but with a human soul, a razor tool for demanding storyteller.

[lct]

1 hour ago, sarav said:

The lens is a gem, super sharp but with a human soul, a razor tool for demanding storyteller.

Nicely said.

[rawlit]

Thank you all for your inputs, reading what everyone wrote I realize liking or not a lens rendering is a matter of personal taste

[gotium]

16 hours ago, rawlit said:

Thank you all for your inputs, reading what everyone wrote I realize liking or not a lens rendering is a matter of personal taste

Well that's a truth. I very, very, very much dislike the rendering of the 28 cron, while many others seem to love it. 

Edited August 11, 2022 by gotium

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[rramesh]

15 minutes ago, gotium said:

Well that's a truth. I very, very, very much dislike the rendering of the 28 cron, while many others seem to love it. 

Sorry you feel that way. The 28mm Summicron is undoubtedly the best reportage lenses ever made for the Leica M. For 'Blur' there are many other lenses. Maybe not at 28mm but certainly at other focal lengths.