Re: dreamy Nikon lenses

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

I am compelled to admit that 99 7/10ths of this lens talk is Greek to me, 
but it does bring two questions to mind:

1. Who remembers the name of the photographer who did lovely portraits 
with an antique long lens in probably the '90s.  He was quite well known 
at the time, and I'd recognize his name (probably).

2.  Supposedly CS2 (or now 3) can do anything you or they or I can do 
better.... for instance it supposedly has a filter that will fake 
increasing background blur, to compensate for short focal length of the 
digital camera.  Wouldn't/shouldn't it have a soft-focus filter?

At the very least !?

J.