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Bad bokeh limits it's usefulness.

Started Jun 20, 2014 | User reviews thread
Great Bustard Forum Pro • Posts: 45,641
Re: That's the first I've heard that.

Just another Canon shooter wrote:

Great Bustard wrote:

Just another Canon shooter wrote:

Great Bustard wrote:

All other reports I've heard have praised the bokeh from this lens. Any examples you can share?

qianp2k posted a few examples a few months ago with really busy bokeh. They were taken at f/2 with focus quite far. I could not find them. All I remember that I made a remark that it was a very useful lens but the bokeh was bad. That was the last post.

Ah. What I'm saying, however, is that to make a determination that Lens A is "worse than" Lens B, we need pics of the same scene from the same position with the same settings on the same camera with the same processing.

There is a big problem with that, as I explained earlier. You do your test, and then you realize that in your real life shooting you shoot at a different distance, with different background, etc.

Not a problem, actually.  You shoot a bunch of different representative scenes with the same camera, lens, and settings, and compare.  What are the odds, then, that the real life scenes you shoot are not only way different, but systematically favor one lens over the other?

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