Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh vs. Nokeh
From: "Ken Iisaka" <ken@iisaka.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:51:31 -0700
References: <39A5EA33.811D4D50@tp.silkera.net>
 
> Hi All Luggers,
>
> I'd been searching the Japanese photographic term "nokeh" from LUG
> Archive for a while.
> However, the LUG Archive did not show any match. I had read a lot of
> articles about bokeh,
> but there were very few on nokeh.
>
> I will be obliged if some one who know Japanese and the photographic
> term would kindly
> reply to me about the following questions:
>
> 1. What is nokeh?
> 2. What is the difference between bokeh and nokeh?
> 3. Is nokeh important to photography?

It's actually nuke, pronounced rather like noo-KEH.

I do understand the characteristics of boke (or bokeh) but nuke is something
beyond me.
In reply to: Message from "Lin, Weifu" <wflin@tp.silkera.net> ([Leica] Bokeh vs. Nokeh)