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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:

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?

Huge. When I got my 35L I did just that. Everything was perfect. Then I started using it and realized that I did I had a very poor idea of what a representative set of scenes meant.

Well, that's why it's important to shoot representative scenes.  For example, if you test a lens by shooting a brick wall, don't be surprised if the real life photos have characteristics not revealed in the tests.

There is no substitute for real life experience.

Not every situation can be accounted for by a set of test photos, of course, but if you take some time to think of some representative photos, you can get the info you need to know.

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