E. von Hoegh
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Billy Dee Williams is still alive...
So is George Kennedy... I think.
Billy Dee Williams is still alive...
I love walking around on a rainy day with high-speed film and a Nikon with an 85/1.4 tucked under my
parka, often shot wide open. I briefly become a "bokeh" maniac on such days. But 95% of the time, I'm shooting sheet film as sharp as I can get it. I judge the results by the print itself, and couldn't care less how or when the term itself is used, or if it even existed in the first place.
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To translate something. Yes, that's just about exactly what I meant.
You're very full of yourself, aren't you? Here, see if you can translate this: "Ma gavte la nata". And while you're at it, get a better dictionary. I recommend the Second Webster's Unabridged, The Oxford, or the Third Webster's Unabridged.
Have a lovely day.
Post Scriptum - You misspelled "Bokeh". Twice.
Personally, if I find myself navel gazing a photography term, it's generally high time I pulled my head out and go make some negatives. Ymmv.
What does "navel gazing" mean?
~Stone
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What does "navel gazing" mean?
What does "navel gazing" mean?
~Stone
Mamiya: 7 II, RZ67 Pro II / Canon: 1V, AE-1, 5DmkII / Kodak: No 1 Pocket Autographic, No 1A Pocket Autographic | Sent w/ iPhone using Tapatalk
What does "navel gazing" mean?
~Stone
Mamiya: 7 II, RZ67 Pro II / Canon: 1V, AE-1, 5DmkII / Kodak: No 1 Pocket Autographic, No 1A Pocket Autographic | Sent w/ iPhone using Tapatalk
Personally, if I find myself navel gazing a photography term, it's generally high time I pulled my head out and go make some negatives. Ymmv.
Omphaloskepsis.
Careful, deliberate contemplation, among other things.
Haha nice, see, words are useful
Thanks Matt
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I should mention the true story of the etymology of bokeh. It all began with a rude rare lens dealer in
Brooklyn, who specialized in optics with unusual out-of-focus characteristics. If anyone phoned to ask
the price, he'd reply, "Yeh wanna be broke, eh?" So these started being known as "brokeh" lenses. Since
the Japanese don't have a sound for "r", this was simply contracted to "bokeh". Analogously, the Aussies pronounce it "breykey", and the French "breukeaux". Meanwhile, the pronunciation has continued to degrade in Brooklyn itself, where it now pronounced, "beahhhkay".
Here's one of my favorites: "parablepsy". B0&#h is related to parablepsy.
I should mention the true story of the etymology of bokeh. It all began with a rude rare lens dealer in
Brooklyn, who specialized in optics with unusual out-of-focus characteristics. If anyone phoned to ask
the price, he'd reply, "Yeh wanna be broke, eh?" So these started being known as "brokeh" lenses. Since
the Japanese don't have a sound for "r", this was simply contracted to "bokeh". Analogously, the Aussies pronounce it "breykey", and the French "breukeaux". Meanwhile, the pronunciation has continued to degrade in Brooklyn itself, where it now pronounced, "beahhhkay".
I think Drew was being a comedian.
It is a Japanese word (Romaji: boke; pronounced as two syllables, soft vowels in both), the literal translation being "blur". Us westerners like to append the h so that other ignorant roundeyes don't pronounce it as rhyming with broke.
Amen.Yep. But remember, our antipodean friend is reading it upside down.
Which is why I don't like it. It's awkward to say and awkward to use.
At best it gets pronounced bokay or bokuh, because in English an "eh" on the end of of a word is never pronounced like the "e" in "end".
So: to describe a property of lenses, Mike Johnston introduced a word that no one understood the meaning of, and which no English speaker would know how to pronounce properly, and might not be able to even after having it explained. Further, the property is judged subjectively, ensuring that there would be misuse whenever his intended exact meaning of the word is not understood.
Johnston's attempt to bring clarity to a concept by introducing a standard word for it instead created a muddled linguistic and conceptual mess.
Johnston's attempt to bring clarity to a concept by introducing a standard word for it instead created a muddled linguistic and conceptual mess.
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