Bokeh examples

Interesting, thanks, though there are many “bokeh” lenses that aren’t there:) I’d imagine a complete accounting would be close to impossible. Good effort though.
 
Erik van Straten said:
My favorite is the Cooke Amotal. Never heard from this lens, but it is incredible.


Erik.
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That lens was made by Cooke for the Bell & Howell Foton camera.

That camera turned out to be a bit of an overpriced flop at 700 USD in 1948 so a well known US camera store bought the surplus lenses and had them mounted in a roughly made aluminium helical body in LTM in Italy (and even a few were made to fit the Contax RF camera) and sold them with Leica cameras .. as there was some loophole where this camera store could sell a new Leica body with a non Leica lens for much less money than Leitz dictated to their US dealers for the usual Leica with a Leitz lens in the early 1950s.
 
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the NOCT :eek::eek::eek:
 
xayraa33 said:
That lens was made by Cooke for the Bell & Howell Foton camera.

That camera turned out to be a bit of an overpriced flop at 700 USD in 1948 so a well known US camera store bought the surplus lenses and had them mounted in a roughly made aluminium helical body in LTM in Italy (and even a few were made to fit the Contax RF camera) and sold them with Leica cameras .. as there was some loophole where this camera store could sell a new Leica body with a non Leica lens for much less money than Leitz dictated to their US dealers for the usual Leica with a Leitz lens in the early 1950s.
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The lenses were made by Taylor, Taylor and Hobson in 1948. They sell like hot sandwiches nowadays; the lens heads are placed on old Leica screw mount flanges to make them fit on digital cameras.

Erik.


Cooke Amotal:

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