Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug -- I think you have described and summed up the situation just right. Robert On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information