Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/11

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Subject: [Leica] What's the Best All-Around 50?
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Thu May 11 17:06:06 2006
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i think i would phrase it "BAD bokeh is like pornography," both
in the sense that it is obscene, and that "bad bokeh" is far more
easily recognizable than "good bokeh" in the justice stewart sense.

-rei

On May11 17:02, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Good bokeh is like pornography. I know it when I see it. Now, if you think 
> bokeh is fiction, then I have a nice 500mm Russian MTO mirror lens you 
> might want to buy. :-)
> --
> Jeffery
> 
> ---- Marc James Small <msmall@aya.yale.edu> wrote: 
> > At 08:34 PM 5/11/06 +0100, Colin J wrote:
> > 
> > >2) Bokeh
> > 
> > With all respect, "bokeh" is a matter held in little regard by many of us
> > on the List.  To some, such as yourself, as it would appear, it is of
> > import, but to many of us, it would not reach the radar screen as we see 
> > it
> > as a fiction.  It cannot be qauantified and therefore is not an issue.
> > 
> > 
> > msmall@aya.yale.edu 
> > Cha robh b??s fir gun ghr??s fir!

-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


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