Originally Posted by
Oren Grad
As David Goldfarb has pointed out previously, promotional literature for the Verito back in the 1920s made precisely such a claim:
"...a specially designed double lens... which, while it gives the desired diffused or soft optical effect, shows no distortion, double lines, or other optical imperfections, and being rectilinear gives an even diffusion over the whole plate... Will not make sharp negatives with wiry definition unless stopped down to f:8."
"Double line imperfection" is what the Japanese refer to literally as "ni-sen bokeh".
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