Last night I reread my newly rediscovered 4T manual. In it is discusses
out-of-focus and soft-focus but never uses bokeh. How long has the term
been in use?
Gregg
From: Joel Wilcox
> At 09:46 AM 6/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >thanks - I had gotten most of that by reading in to the posts, but not so
> >clear. Is "bokeh" a made-up word or does it have real language origins?
>
> Hi Wayne:
>
> We've been told on a number of occasions that it has the straightforward
> translation of "blur" from the original Japanese. Nobody really seems to
> like this, since "blur" is never used as a word-for-word translation
> ("How's the blur of this lens?").
>
> We may not have in English a word with the connotations that "bokeh" has
in
> Japanese, not that I pretend to know what these might be.
>
> The concept of bokeh as an optical/phenomenological desirable originates
in
> Japan I think (but again don't really know). Does anyone know if there
was
> ever similar discussion of the out of focus qualities of lenses in, say,
> Germany? If so, what are the concept words? Indirectly, the F64/Northern
> California photographers rejected the bokeh-phenomenon as a desideratum in
> photography, but this was with reference to the early 20th century
> painterly emphasis in portraiture -- an aesthetic rejection of soft
> focusing and shallow DOF -- not to the characteristics of lens
construction
> and performance.
>
> More than you wanted to know, and almost no real knowledge in it. :/
>
> Joel Wilcox
> Iowa City, Iowa USA
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