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This is a version for Retina cameras but not named Retina-Xenon. It has short MFD of 0.5m compared to 0.9 of more common Retina-Xenon. Obviously it has longer barel but other than that it is the same lens optically.
As all Xenons it is a beautiful and precisely made. It is similar optical design to Biotar so it is not surprise that it swirl in right conditions. But it is also capable of creating very smooth aquarelish bokeh too.
If I do not want to exaggerate a bit bokeh affect, no post processing is really needed. Colors are rich and natural. Here I worked hard to restaure the details and some colours in peony flower. It is almost impossible to get right this kind of composition straight out of camera. Something has to give up. Or flower is burnt or background is too dark. Lot of pushing and pulling is needed to make it right in the post. Xenon will render enough informations in RAW file to make it possible. I did not try to remove artifacts and as you may see there is not much of them
An example of Planar bokeh. Some color tonning is done with Darktable. Not that I do not like original combination of lens and Nikon standard presset, but tI eas in this mood when I "develloped" the photo.
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another shot of the berberis shrub, taken a few weeks ago when the leaves were still there and covered with frost.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
a set with all those frosty sunday morning captures in one place can be found here
on explore #162 on Friday, November 13