Thank you very much Aaron, Eric and Antonio for your kind comments. Bokeh is not the best characteristic for a Gauss type lens design and the background in the backlight portrait is a hard challenge for the Xenotar, however I think the round iris helped to improve the bokeh this time, not the real lens bokeh but the bokeh shape for this photograph. Regarding Eric question, I uploaded an almost raw scanned image, I can modify within some limits the background and/or the main subject tonality using the PS curves tool, in fact I obtained a digital print with a clear tonal separation between main subject and background, you could obtain similar results from an enlarger using your hands to vary the exposure for the image different parts, anyway the background looks softer in a print, sometimes the Out of Focus areas look harsher due to the monitor sharpness type.- All the best Carlos __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list