It is mentioned when describing a lens because not all lenses blur the
background, or foreground, in the same way. There can be a sort of
flavour to the way things are blured. Some lenses have a very pleasant
smooth sort of bokeh whereas others can give a distracting and harsh
appearance to blurred areas.
A lens with pleasant bokeh is often very good as a portrait lens as the
smooth blur somehow seems to make the in-focus subject stand out and seem
3D.
Giles
John A. Prosper wrote:
> |I hate to expose my ignorance to the whole world, but what does "bokeh"
> |mean?
> It's a Japanese term which means "pleasingly out of focus"; in other
> words, pleasant background blur---as in portraits.
>
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