Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Bokeh Nokeh
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:23:24 -0700
 
Boy, Kurt... you forgot to look where you were walking and stepped right in
it.

Now you have to clean your shoes!

Jim


At 10:18 AM 8/26/00 -0400, khmiska wrote:
>Fellow Leicaists,
>Why all this BS about bokeh nokeh. Why not speak English. We're not in
>the Orient. Do you seriously think the great Leica, Hassleblad, Nikon
>photographers who created so many of the well known masterpieces ever
>gave a crap about bokeh nokeh etc.? I can't imagine the legendary Henri
>Cartier-Bresson even giving a thought to it. Forget all this little
>detail s*** and use the camera for what it's intended for - taking
>photographs. I read somewhere that the great Eisenstadt did a little
>lens testing; found what he liked, and then used it. The KISS principle
>applies here - keep it simple, stupid. So, if you want to drum me out of
>the corps, no problemo.
>Kurt
>Ann Arbor
>