Bokeh describes the quality of the out-of-focus area of an image, but in today’s vernacular, people talk about it as if it’s just the out of focus area and that’s all. Manufacturers have lead consumers to do nothing else but compare the bokeh of one lens to another in side by side comparisons. And truly, who cares? Photographers: here’s the honest fact. People who look at your images are instead staring at what’s in focus instead. For that, there’s a more important thing to think about: Micro contrast.
