Re: [Leica] Bokeh

["Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

Darren,
Another way you may be able to experience 'bokeh' is to compare the footage
of NFL football games during the actual game, which is shot on video
(BetaSP) and the highlight footage shot by NFL Films on 16mm film (now being
shot on Super 16mm). There is no mistaking the difference. And as a footnote
to that, there has been some complaints in the last few years that 16mm
camera lenses are getting so sharp that the footage is starting to look like
video. 
sl
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>From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh
>Date: Thu, Jun 3, 1999, 12:03 PM
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>Darren-
>You really ought to read the archives to get the full 'flavour' of the
>ongoing discussion of bokeh! It really is enlightening, but, barring that,
>the simplest explanation is that bokeh is a word derived from the Japanese
>and denotes a quality that is hard to translate into English.
>The best description is that it is the pleasing quality of the out-of-focus
>portions of photos when rendered by certain lenses. It is pretty subjective,
>and is probably why some people prefer Leica glass over other maker's. To me
>the bokeh of many Leitz lenses is the softly rendered out of focus areas, a
>certain roundness that is not harsh, nor is it 'just out of focus'
>It's like trying to describe the silky mouthfeel of a well aged Beaujolais
>to someone that has never tasted one!
>You know it when it hits you, and then you know why someone would drop $70
>for that bottle of wine!
>Same with the Leica glass- you compare photos taken with Leica next to brand
>'X', and if you can see the difference, and recognize the qulaities, then
>you are a true Leicaphile!
>Dan
>PS- Some people here, not exactly epidemiologists, feel that the ability to
>see bokeh comes from the bite of a small innocuous insect, we call it a
>Leica bug. The infection is only terminal if your evergrowing pile of
>Leicas, carefully packed in a myriad of Lowepro backpacks should ever fall
>over on you, and smother you!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Darren <umszpon0@cc.UManitoba.CA>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:27 AM
>Subject: [Leica] Bokeh
>
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>>Would anyone explain what the lens performance variable Bokeh is? What
>>do I look for in my pictures to evaluate it?
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>>Darren
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