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12/25/2008 12:00:32 PM · #1 |
IS THERE BOKEH?!
Ha, I'm thinking of getting one with Christmas money. I know the lens is nice and fast and it has manual controls, so can you use it wide open in order to get at least SOME bokeh? Or does it suffer from the same flaw as most P&S cameras, with the short focal length and small sensor creating huge DOF? |
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12/25/2008 02:29:18 PM · #2 |
Bokeh is what bokeh is. It's the quality of the OOF areas. You should be asking if it has good bokeh or bad bokeh. Between cameras with the same size sensor, the DOF issues are going to be the same for all brands: for a given aperture/focal length combo and a given sensor size, DOF will be the same.
You are correct that the smaller the sensor, the harder you have to work to get OOF backgrounds. Usually you need to shoot at tele length and max aperture to do anything aggressive with DOF. On the plus side, for macro work you have MUCH more DOF to play with than we dSLR people do.
The quality of the bokeh, at least as far as rendering OOF blobs from point sources of light, is dependent largely upon the physical construction of the iris in the camera; if it has 5 blades, you get pentagons. If it has 6 blades you get hexagons. And so forth... I don't know what the Lumix has. A lot of modern dSLR lenses have irises that are virtually circular, and they make very nice bokeh.
R.
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