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Subject: [Leica] New M/ BOKEH?????
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:06:56 -0700
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True, we USians tend to be US centric :-/

But of course the Japanese care about for a long time. Otherwise they
wouldn't have have the word for it.

You are correct Sir!

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Richard, that's a pretty US-centric frame of reference ;-)  Those Japanese
> and German folks that actually make lenses and cameras do care too.
> You managed to include a throw away line implying this is only important
> for people that only talk about photography!
> Journey AND destination, sir!
>
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
>
> On 24 September 2012 05:03, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> wrote:
>
> > UNCLE Ted:
> >
> > The word boke/bokeh was borrowed by Mike Johnston (who was on this list
> > once upon a time, I believe) in the early 1970s from Japanese to describe
> > the phenomena, and probably didn't get popular usage until the 2000's
> when
> > photographers have time to really hone their craft - on the Internet chat
> > rooms and forums.
> >
> > Probably why you didn't hear about it before.
> >
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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