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OK folks,

What type of bokeh do people prefer?

(See message thread: http://forum.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t=960&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=)

I think all bokeh should be treated as equals and live in harmony.

Greg B wrote:I think all bokeh should be treated as equals and live in harmony.

just my small contribution, "sake" is make me better than "bokeh" , I'm sorry

just my small contribution, "sake" is make me better than "bokeh" , I'm sorry

Depends on the Sake...

I've has some "fun" nights in Sake when I went to Japan... I didnt realise that if you didnt want anymore you had to leave your cup full!

Just out of interest, for those who may be a bit older, does anyone remember people talking about Boke (bokeh) in the past? I must say I was just pleased to have something in focus and the background out, made me feel like a pro. Now I consider boke on at least half my lens purchases (or maybe I just like showing what an easily led fashion victim I am).

Glen wrote:Just out of interest, for those who may be a bit older, does anyone remember people talking about Boke (bokeh) in the past?

Yes. It's been around for a while.

Thanks Gary, I was feeling like a fashion victim for a moment

Glen wrote:Thanks Gary, I was feeling like a fashion victim for a moment

ROTLMAO!

pot calling kettle black mode...

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/colum ... 4-04.shtml

This link suggests that the use of the term boke(h) to refer to the OOF bits in the background may have started in the middish nineties.

I have a bunch of camera magazines from the seventies and eighties, and apart from looking REALLY dated, I don't recall boke(h) ever getting mentioned in them, and a quick glance the other night failed to unearth any boke(h) talk.

Greg,

Greg B wrote:This link suggests that the use of the term boke(h) to refer to the OOF bits in the background may have started in the middish nineties.

I have a bunch of camera magazines from the seventies and eighties, and apart from looking REALLY dated, I don't recall boke(h) ever getting mentioned in them, and a quick glance the other night failed to unearth any boke(h) talk.

My experience tells me that it's something I've been aware of for a very long time; as you know, I've been involved in photography for something like 30 years, and while I'm reluctant to say I've known about it all of that time, something close to most of it would not be too far off the mark.

I'm thinking in terms of some of the Leica masters whose images we see from time to time - I'm quite sure that discussion of their images (in magazines and books) would have made reference to this. I'm also thinking that Nikon lens catalogues of the 70s may well have made reference to this as well.

Alas, I have no hard evidence to support any of this, but that's my gut feeling on this.

Greg B, you are making me feel like a johnny come lately fashion victim

Stoopid question...

How do you pronounce Boke(h). And what about Vignetting?

English should be my second language but then I'd have no first language.

Cheers
Dean

Boke is pronounces Boke-eh

so say boke and then eh?


Vignetting is pron. vinyetting

Deano wrote:Stoopid question...

How do you pronounce Boke(h). And what about Vignetting?

Not stupid at all. What's stupid is failing to ask the question.

Try something like

bo-kay

vin-yet

Are you comfortable with moire?

Thanks guys.

Bouquet (the non-posh version) and VinYet.

Funny you mentioned moire as I was trying to use the word yesterday talking to a workmate. I don't know how to pronounce it.

Cheers
Dean

According to the guy in the link I left in the earlier post...


"it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth"

Moiré = M'wah-ray. Bloody French.

Greg B wrote:According to the guy in the link I left in the earlier post...


"it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth"

I'll defer to this.

Mejicano sangriento!


And M'wah-Ray is good.

Français sanglant!