Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bokah exists! How else can you explain a group of educated, diverse (I did read many of the roll-call entries) people from all over the world accepting a nonsensical word as the symbol for a visual phenomenon that occurs in photographs made with Leica lenses (M only? my experience...) And apparently agreeing on it! you put it as... "the out-of-focus characteristics of certain lenses" Others of us have different experiences, but we still agree subjectively that its there. That is how we prove Bokeh exists! Plato! Are you a reasonable man? Or do you just want to smash our idols? -:) (Personally I 1st came to believe the magic of Bokah when, as a young guy I started to really know how to print and seeing the images in the fixxer with the light on and falling in love with grey scales... ah, those were the days...but I just didn't know the word for it then) Steven