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RE: [OM] 28/3.5 bokeh :)

from John A. Prosper

Subject:	RE: [OM] 28/3.5 bokeh :)
From:	"John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:45:03 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Little, Gwynne wrote:

|Greetings,
|
|I hate to expose my ignorance to the whole world, but what does "bokeh"
|mean?

It's a Japanese term which means "pleasingly out of focus"; in other
words, pleasant background blur---as in portraits.


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