On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Gregg Iverson wrote:
>Take your lens off and watch the blades as you push the DOF button at
>different apertures. At wide open they do not appear, so the image
>shows up as a circle. As you step down the lens, the blades make the
>familiar polygons (shape depends on # of blades).
>
>Acer Victoria wrote:
>>
>> But the shot was take with the lens wide open. The hilites are perfect
>> circles, and quite distracting. In one other foto, the lens was stopped
>> down, and the hilites are polygons.
Oh, yes, I knew that much. I was commenting to something Giles said, about
bokeh/aperture blades/sharpness of macro lenses.
My question or rhetorical comment to wit: "is the bokeh of macro lenses
distracting because they are sharper than normal lenses?" Once I post the
photo (which I'll try to do at school instead of waiting for PSP), you'll
see.
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