In these discussions, some version of the Noctilux lens would always be mentioned. I would also hear about certain lenses being Bokeh Kings. This is more or less how we dreamed up the concept of the LHSA Black Paint camera.ДЄs time passed, I would hear more about this mysterious Bokeh and that there were in fact both вЂњgoodвЂќ and вЂњbadвЂќ forms of Bokeh. You learn of a lot of very interesting things and along the way meet a lot of interesting people and often have new ideas, which seem very interesting as well, at least at the time.

As IвЂ™m sure both Tom and I were in a bit of a KГ¶lsch beer haze or the tobacco haze which we would encounter on the LOMO stand, I more than likely thought this was very interesting and promptly filed it away somewhere in my mind. Tom had recently been to Japan prior to the big show in Germany, and during our usual imbibing of copious amounts of KГ¶lsch, he told me about this new concept of Bokeh which folks in Japan seemed to be obsessed with. I think I first encountered the term Bokeh many years ago (way back in the 80вЂ™s) while in the company of Tom Abrahamsson at one of the many Photokinas we attended together. It is also defined as the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.вЂќ The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means вЂњblurвЂќ or вЂњhazeвЂќ or boke-aji (blur quality). Wikipedia defines вЂњBokeh (usually pronounced Boc-ah) as the blur or aesthetic quality of the blur, in the out-of-focus areas of an image.

Spiral bokeh lens