Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert Meier > >Of course it exists. That isn't the question. > Recognizing the color green or recognizing the differences in bokeh is then a matter of exposure, education, and training. Before I knew what made lens' drawing styles different, I could see that there was a difference. What I couldn't do was verbalize the difference I saw because I didn't have the vocabulary or training to describe the difference. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com > >On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> >wrote: > >> Robert Meier wrote: >> >>>>> >> Linguists have found that different language groups divide the visible >> spectrum up in different ways and have names for different colors within >> the continuum of the spectrum, so that, for example, some cultures have >> only two words for the range from yellow through green to blue, omitting >> our word green. When asked what they call what we see as green, they >> answer either yellow or blue, depending on where the shade of green >> falls. They don't "see" green, only yellow and blue. So does green >> exist for them? No, it doesn't: what they see is either yellow or blue. >> <<< >> >> The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum we know as 'green' exists >> whether we have a word for it or not. >> >> Doug Herr >> Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Doug Herr Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com