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It was Sunday. So I dipped into a couple of forums to see what was going on. It was bokeh everywhere. Never has so little been said about so much, but in so many words. Etc.

I retreated to the Large Format Forum…..oh, no, they are at it as well. However, my eye caught post 7 of this thread. I’m glad I did too. Oren Grad supplies the following information:

My copy of the fourth (1991) edition of the Koojien, a comprehensive Japanese-Japanese dictionary, explicitly lists unsharpness of focus as one of the meanings of bokeru (惚ける), in addition to fading color and fading mental acuity.

This explains it all perfectly. Discussing bokeh causes brain fade.

Ahem, and on a light hearted note, here is a short YouTube video of somebody handholding a large format camera whilst attempting street photography, and here is the website of Camera Eccentric. Apart from marvelling at the lens with a 36 inch coverage at the top of the for sale page, look out the scans of camera brochures from the dim and distant past. Much more fun than is/isn’t debates about the current king of bokeh.

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