Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Erwin, It confirmed what I thought it was. I would second the opinion that I would never wish for anything to cloud a Leica lens... jem ---------- From: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' To: KIMEJ44; 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' Subject: Bokeh:a mythical construct Date: 18 November 1997 15:07 'Bokeh' to state it quite clearly does not exist. The concept is supposed to elucidate the out-of-focus characteristics of certain lenses, some of them made by Leitz and Leica. In fact is a marvelous piece of self-suggestion, of the kind David Copperfield should be proud of. It is a well known fact that vision can be influenced by what you think or like to percieve. 'Bokeh' falls in this catagory: it has no sound scientific, not even factual basis. It is 'believer-stuff'. Like Ronald Reagans SDI project: it is easy to talk about, we all seem to agree, no one has ever seen it and in never actually existed. Leica lore has always had its fair share of myths and mystique. We do the rational discussion about Leica lenses no favour by introducing constructs like 'bokeh'. It should be removed from the Leica users vocabulary. I am aware that I belong to the smallest possible group of anti-bokeh promoters (just me). Still the bokeh discussion clouds the appraisal of Leica lenses and that is tha last thing I would like to support. Erwin