Re: bokeh

[graywolf]

Come to the mountain. Sit at my feet. Give me all your worldly goods. I will 
explain the mysteries of Bokeh, my child. Then all your photographs will have a 
Mystic Far Eastern quality to them that will be the envy of all your friends. If 
you do not do this, you will never make a good photograph, everyone will snicker 
when they look at your pictures, and whisper, "Bad Bokeh".

Even though they don't have a clue as to what it is either.

We all have our own definition of Bokeh, don't we? Sort of like DOF, huh?
Luckily great photographs have been, and will be, made without even knowing of 
its existance, at least by that name.

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Andre Langevin wrote:
Before one comes with it: bokeh has NOTHING to do with the number of 
aperture blades.  The location of the aperture within the optics plays a 
part in it, but bokeh is mostly the result of the WAY sperical 
aberration is corrected.  Apparently it's not just a question of having 
undercorrected (good bokeh) or overcorrected (bad bokeh) spherical 
aberration.


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graywolf
http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are,
you are not going to be able to change them anyway."