[Leica] New M/ BOKEH?????

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Richard, that's a pretty US-centric frame of reference ;-)  Those Japanese
and German folks that actually make lenses and cameras do care too.
You managed to include a throw away line implying this is only important
for people that only talk about photography!
Journey AND destination, sir!


Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 24 September 2012 05:03, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> 
wrote:

> UNCLE Ted:
>
> The word boke/bokeh was borrowed by Mike Johnston (who was on this list
> once upon a time, I believe) in the early 1970s from Japanese to describe
> the phenomena, and probably didn't get popular usage until the 2000's when
> photographers have time to really hone their craft - on the Internet chat
> rooms and forums.
>
> Probably why you didn't hear about it before.
>
>
> --
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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