Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 25/8/00 6:27 AM, apbbeijing@yahoo.com at apbbeijing@yahoo.com wrote: > nokeh refers to the non-existent image elements beyond the in and out of > focus concepts which have traditionally been the objects of attention > > bokeh refers to the out of focus part of the image, nokeh to that which is > beyond out of focus. > > nokeh is critical to top quality conceptual art photography but is rarely > detected by those who cannot tell the difference between Elmars and > Elmarits: these are known as 'nobojin' which roughly translated means those > 'people beyond focus'. > > I hope you find this explanation without purpose, Thank you for providing a provocative definition of "nokeh", which is non-existent in Japanese. One sometimes uses a word "nukeh" which literally means penetrance. "This image (or a lens) has good nukeh." It means that the image is clear without any veiling stuff. Bokeh or nukeh or whatever is just a common word used in daily conversation. There is no connotation or implication for the secret of photography. MIKIRO http://arbos.silva.net