Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Bokeh vs. Nokeh
From: "Anders Nygren" <anygren@attglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:40:17 -0600

De: Bob Walkden <bobwalkden@hotmail.com>


>Hi,
>
>actually okeh-cokeh, to use the correct Japanese spelling, is the quality
>attributed to a lens when it produces pleasing (okeh) images that look as
>though they were shoot through the bottom of a soda (cokeh) bottle.
>Traditionally such images inspire a burst of frenzied dancing involving
legs
>in and legs out.
>
>In the late 19th century when soda bottles were replaced by cans in France
>the dance was renamed the can-can and popularised by Toulouse Lautrec, who
>took his frenzy to such extremes that he wore his legs to a stump.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bob-san.


ROTFLMAO, thats the funniest thing I have seen here in a long time.

/Anders Nygren