Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]my spell checker changed bokeh to bolshevik, though I am sure bokeh existed before the word. It however needed fast high quality lenses, that would be routinely ! shot effectively wide open, for very narrow dof, to see the effect that we call bokeh.....perhaps that was the key raison d'etre that caused leica lenses to be associated with bokeh. Pioneers like our Ted Grant, by shooting fast leica lenses wide open, were creating a new vision, and ultimately a new word.... though they deny this being their reason or their goal. > Thanks, Doug, for still understanding what I was writing. Your point, > though, is not as self-obvious as it would first appear. Linguists have > found that different language groups divide the visible spectrum up in > different ways and have names for different colors within the continuum of > the spectrum, so that, for example, some cultures have only two words > for the range from yellow through green to blue, omitting our word green. > When asked what they call what we see as green, they answer either yellow > or blue, depending on where the shade of green falls. They don't "see" > green, only yellow and blue. So does green exist for them? No, it > doesn't: what they see is either yellow or blue. > > Did bokeh exist for us before we borrowed the Japanese word for it and > became aware of it? > > > > On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:03 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> > wrote: > >> Robert Meier wrote: >> >>> >>> Nobody knew what broken was. >>> >> >> We didn't have a word for it. That doesn't preclude its existence. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information