Re: An excellent article!

[Michael Leitheiser <flyh2o@mtsi.com>]

Found the British version locally(Portland Oregon)  can't find the
other..any help?  Who is the publisher and is it a monthly or?  Thanks.

At 07:11 PM 5/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I went out in search of the latest Photo Techniques to find the
>"bokeh" article mentioned by other LUG members, and I was struck by
>two things:
>
>1) the local bookstores also carry a British magazine called "Photo
>   Technique" which seems to be as much a rag as "Popular
>   Photography," which is to say, quite different from "Photo
>   Techniques"
>2) The articles about "bokeh" seemed to take the slant that this was
>   something only the Japanese knew about
>
>To elaborate further on point 2, although the articles admitted that
>older German lenses are those most admired by Japanese "bokeh"
>enthusiasts, there was no discussion of how this might have come
>about.  The notion that the older German lenses had been designed to
>have pleasing "bokeh" was not raised -- instead, there are various
>paragraphs about how it was natural that the Japanese would be the
>ones to pay attention to "bokeh" and Westerners would not, because the
>Japanese have a tradition of aesthetics and pay attention to negative
>space.
>
>Did anyone else feel that these articles treated the practice of
>paying attention to the way in which a lens renders out-of-focus
>portions of an image as a recent Japanese innovation?
>
>-Patrick
>
Mike Leitheiser

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