nikon new AFS zooms: 9-bladed shutter. What gives?

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The new Nikon AFS zooms have a 9-bladed shutter design, ostensibly for more pleasing 'out-of-focus' areas. Has anyone who has tried them (currently, only the 80-200mm is available outside of Japan) noticed if it is of any benefit to the phtographs esspecially where 'bokeh' is concerned?

-- rene z. quan (renequan@goplay.com), January 31, 1999

Answers

I assume you are talking about a 9 blade aperture diaphragm. I can't really answer your questions, but the rounder the hole the light goes through, the better, or at least that's what common wisdom says. More blades = rounder apertures.

-- Brad (reloader@webtv.net), January 31, 1999.

Hello brad

I stand corrected; of course, it is the 9-bladed aperture diaphragm. Thanks for correcting my confused terminology. Difficult for me to correct deeply engrained wrong terminology from childhood.

-- rene z. quan (renequan@goplay.com), February 01, 1999.


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