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Thread: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

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    240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    Usually i shoot around F22, but for a project, i will shoot in 8X10 wide open... looking for a narrow deph of field, and a nice bokeh...

    Any suggestion regarding lens around 240-300 mm ?

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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    Nikkor 240W.

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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    I've got very nice images with my Nikkor 240 mm W wide open.
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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    Tessar or Heliar

    With those lenses, you don't need to shoot wide open to get good blur.

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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    12" Wolly Velostigmat in a studio or Betax #5 shutter. At 4.5 on a 10x8 it is wonderful. See Jim Galli's site.

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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    I've got a 12" Gundlach Radar with an aperture of f4.5 (in a Betax #5, like steve) that seems to do pretty good! f4.5 is pretty fast for an 8x10 lens! How far away to you plan on focusing?
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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    Ken, that is a lovely shot with your Heliar. Which heliar did you use? 300mm non-universal heliar? Jon

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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    How far away to you plan on focusing?

    That's the point... around 3 to 5 meters in sunny places... i will probably use a 6x neutral filter to do it !

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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    The think is that i want very limited dof... but i want sharp details to be very sharp !

    Similar to Zeiss-contax lens in 35mm.

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    Re: 240-300 lens for 8X10 wide open... Bokeh ?

    Quote Originally Posted by archivue View Post
    How far away to you plan on focusing?

    That's the point... around 3 to 5 meters in sunny places... i will probably use a 6x neutral filter to do it !
    You may want to take a look at some of the older brass lenses as well, some of them are quite big around! I don't know much about them yet (just getting into them myself) but I've seen some in the 300mm+ range with good sized apertures! Some of the brass lenses seem to have a very nice look to the blur!

    I use ND filters during the day as well, to keep shutter speeds down when I want to shoot larger apertures.
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