Pentax Guy wrote: > > ----- 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? > Ah-Ha! Keith, you didn't read through your red haze of anger.
You assume I'm angry. Not so. Sometimes exasperated, but... > You have produced evidence. That is what I wanted!!! Of course it is! That's what I DO when I argue. Produce evidence, and let the protagonist wallow around in new, exciting information! ;^) > I can go and pull up bios on > these people, check credentials, read published material. Exactly so! Sighhh. Don't you see, that was what I was HOPING you'd do? > 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? Of course! Do you? How wonderful! Thanks! keith
