Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] bokeh
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:44:02 -0800

At 06:32 PM 1/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Would someone tell me what bokeh means.
>TIA,
>Bud Cook
> 

The word "Bokeh" comes from the two katakana characters "bo" and "ke" which
mean "out-of-focus blur" Bo ke have been transliterated from "boke" to
"bokeh" so that English speaking people will pronounce it correctly.

"A PRIMER ON BOKEH"
   1. What is Bokeh
   2. Notes on the terminology of Bokeh
   3. A technical view of Bokeh

Photo Techniques, May/June 1997 issue.

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Jim Brick