Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh vs. Nokeh
From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein@2alpha.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:28:43 -0700
 
>From: "Ken Iisaka" <ken@iisaka.org>

>It's actually nuke, pronounced rather like noo-KEH.
>
>I do understand the characteristics of boke (or bokeh) but nuke is something
>beyond me.

It describes the circle of slightly fogged film you get when the film has
sat too long under a very early 50mm LTM collapsible Summicron.  ;-)



- --- Peter
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