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

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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 ?

[Andrew O'Neill]

Nikkor 240W.

[Walter Calahan]

I've got very nice images with my Nikkor 240 mm W wide open.

[Ken Lee]

Tessar or Heliar

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

[Shen45]

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

Steve

[Daniel_Buck]

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?

[Jon Wilson]

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

[Ken Lee]

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

That one was made on 4x5 with a 150mm Heliar, and not wide open either. The lens design, plus the many-bladed aperture, give you good blur at all settings. You can control the depth of field, knowing that whatever is blurred, is nicely blurred.

This works for distance shots as well. That image was made with a 210mm Heliar, stopped down to f/8 or f/11.

Without this forum, I would have never learned about stuff like this.

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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 !

[Daniel_Buck]

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.