I shot this with a lens that's been hiding in my closet for the last ten years. I bought it when I picked up a keiv 88 kit in 1998. I tried to sell the kit with this lens on the B&S forum with no results. The lens is an East German Jena (Zeiss) 180mm f 2.8. It has a pentacon six mount. So I bought an adapter to see what I could do with it... Everything is manual...but it does have a focus confirm chip.

I mounted it onto my 1DS2 to see what the images would look like. Here's the first image....shot at f/4. I was at a friend's football shoot and we were waiting for the first team to arrive. The Bokeh of this lens is really something! I paid less than $200 for this 10 years ago! These are still around if you don't mind doing your own work (focus). I'll post some more next time I take it out.

Sorry the old guy isn't some hot young model, maybe next time!

PS: no post processing other than resizing.

Needs a little contrast, levels and sharpening. Why post unprocessed shots SOOC?

Excellent bokeh. Nice shot and great closet find. Maybe I should look through my closet and see what's hiding. I don't think I will be as lucky.

jfinite wrote:
Needs a little contrast, levels and sharpening. Why post unprocessed shots SOOC?

What does that have to do with bokeh?

derek walter wrote:
jfinite wrote:
Needs a little contrast, levels and sharpening. Why post unprocessed shots SOOC?

What does that have to do with bokeh?


+1.... I was just trying to show the creamy bokeh of this really old school lens. If it was an image I really cared about, I would have processed it. I'm going to shoot some "real" images with it in the coming weeks, I'll process those and post a sample.

Thanks for the comments... Now go a search your closets and sheds for old glass!!!!

Oooook, I didn't know comments were restricted to talking about bokeh. Some folks like to look at bokeh, I like to look at photographs. Sorry, my bad.

Wooooooooooow look at that bokeh! Uncanny! And straight out of camera! No way!

I recommend that you might try the alternative gear and lens thread with this image...

SJMD wrote:
I recommend that you might try the alternative gear and lens thread with this image...

+50

I don't get it....

cre55107 wrote:
I don't get it....

This photo gave someone the opportunity to say "creamy bokeh" (a term I'm really beginning to dislike).

jfinite,

Thanks to you I got to spend 10 minutes explaining "bokeh" to my wife, so she could understand why I was laughing so hard at your second post. That felt really good.

kakomu, do you prefer the term "buttery bokeh"? It's related, but different. "Creamy" is SOOC (straight out of cow), and "buttery" is post-processed.

Mmmm, butter.

My post was meant in jest (mostly), hope Ralph didn't take it the wrong way.

I have very thick skin..... Life is too short to take things (especially a snapshot, because that's what this really was...) too seriously.

I posted the image because of the wide variety of equipment that is used in this forum. Yes, I thought about posting it in the alternative gear forum but since this is really a portrait lens, I thought someone might get a kick out of the kind of image that could be had out of what is really a very affordable (cheap) lens. It takes all kinds to spin the planet. Bottomline? It's all good.