From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 03/26/01-11:05:18 AM Z
>BTW, are most of your Fuji 6x9 negs made on a tripod with the lens stopped
>down? Fuji lenses tend to be fine when used in a way that achieves
>pan-focus, but when they are used for selective focus work the out of focus
>areas tend to be truly awful (this is what the Japanese call bokeh, bad
>bokeh in the case of most Fuji lenses). The new Hasselblad panoramic 35 has
>this problem because it uses Fuji lenses. I own two large format Fuji lenses
>and they do great for landscapes at f/32 but I find them unuseable for
>close-ups where some picture areas will be rendered out of focus.---Carl
>
Whether used on a tripod or handheld I tend to use the Fuji 6X9 with the
lens stopped down to f/22 or f/32 in order to get maximum depth of field.
As for boketh, to be quite honest I would not recongize bad bokeh if it bit
me on the face. I guess someone would have to show me prints of the same
scene exposed exactly the same with Fuji and non-Fuji lens to understand
the phenomenon.
Sandy
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