Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]De: Bob Walkden <bobwalkden@hotmail.com> >Hi, > >actually okeh-cokeh, to use the correct Japanese spelling, is the quality >attributed to a lens when it produces pleasing (okeh) images that look as >though they were shoot through the bottom of a soda (cokeh) bottle. >Traditionally such images inspire a burst of frenzied dancing involving legs >in and legs out. > >In the late 19th century when soda bottles were replaced by cans in France >the dance was renamed the can-can and popularised by Toulouse Lautrec, who >took his frenzy to such extremes that he wore his legs to a stump. > >Cheers, > >Bob-san. ROTFLMAO, thats the funniest thing I have seen here in a long time. /Anders Nygren