----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Whaley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: OT: Is BOKEH real?!?! Was -- Re: If You had to pick one lens . . .
> Here's a paragraph from the web source Robert Soames Wetmore posted, > which is: > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/v17/msg11841.html > > Mike Johnston is speaking here: > > "In 1997 I helped introduce a new term into the lexicon of North American > photographers: "bokeh," which was my own rendering of a katakana term > more properly romanized as _bo-ke_ or boke (a spelling which provoked a > hail of puns and jokes on a pronunciation that was totally incorrect). > It's the Japanese word meaning "blur," specifically the visual > properties of the way a lens renders out-of-focus areas in pictures. > _PHOTO Techniques_ presented three articles on the subject: "What is > 'Bokeh'?" By John Kennerdell, an American-born photographer based in > Bangkok; "Notes on the Terminology of Bokeh" by Oren Grad, an M.D. / > Ph.D. researcher at Abt Associates in Cambridge, MA; and "A Technical > View of Bokeh" by Harold Merklinger, who is Senior Scientist at the > Canadian Defense Establishment Atlantic in Halifax, N.S." > > > All these senior scientists' and researchers' emanations are probably > suspect too, because they were found "online," not so? > > keith Ah-Ha! Keith, you didn't read through your red haze of anger. You have produced evidence. That is what I wanted!!! I can go and pull up bios on these people, check credentials, read published material. Of course, if I look into Abt Associates in Cambridge, MA and there is no record of Oren Grad being related there or anywhere and no record of his materials, then it's a fraud, happens all the time on the Internet. I'm not saying what you just posted is. But now I can use a better method to check it's authenticity and read more about him/her and their research. And perhaps learn more about bokeh.....See?
