Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] New M/ BOKEH?????
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:39:09 -0500
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One of the many other times we talked about bokeh on this list, I posted
this paper; it is a pdf so you may need a reader.

http://www.darkroom.com/MiscDocs/bokeh.pdf



On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Richard Man <richard at 
richardmanphoto.com>wrote:

> 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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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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