Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 26/8/00 5:28 PM, Lin, Weifu at wflin@tp.silkera.net wrote: > I purchase Japanese Photographic magazines such as Nippon Camera, Asahi > Camera. > They sometimes use nukeh and bokeh to discribe the characters of an > lens. > This is why I would like to know what they're trying to express. Hi Weifu - glad that little mystery was cleared up! I find these Japanese magazines quite intriguing for the variety and intensity of the lens tests. I note that there are lots of diagrams and charts but very few photos usually (more than Pop Photo of course though). They do seem far more thorough than any of the western magazines I have seen. OTOH there are whole magazines which show a single example each from dozens of lenses and these are sometimes interesting as far as they go: I bought one which shows photos from just about every M and screw fit lens and it is fun. I am still convinced bokeh is too non-scientific to be of value: some of the recent discussion on the LUG seems to illustrate this. For example Henri Cartier Bresson's remarks referred to blurred backgrounds due to limited depth of field from lenses used with wider apertures and said nothing about the characteristics of this background beyond blurriness. Certainly nothing comparing similar spec lenses image characteristics. Nukeh sounds like another vague and general term which evades quantifying - unless they have some system which seems improbable to me... Bests Adrian - -- Adrian Bradshaw Corporate and Editorial Photography Beijing, China tel/fax +86 10 6532 5112 mobile +86 139 108 22292 e-mail apbbeijing@yahoo.com OR adrianpeterbradshaw@compuserve.com website: http://www.apbphoto.com Please note my new mobile number (as of August 1st) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com