
‘Bokeh’ is a Japanese word used to describe the quality of out-of-focus areas in a photograph. Points of light which are out of focus appear as discs, and the more perfectly circular and evenly illuminated these discs are, the better [...]
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‘Bokeh’ is a Japanese word used to describe the quality of out-of-focus areas in a photograph. Points of light which are out of focus appear as discs, and the more perfectly circular and evenly illuminated these discs are, the better [...]
Used to get maximum depth of field in landscapes, where where distant objects (at infinity, basically) are at the far limits of the depth of field. Focussing at the hyperfocal distance ensures maximum sharpness beyond the focus point to infinity, [...]