Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

Blur. Blur with funny ball-shaped bits.

So how do you pronoun it? (wink wink)

Zach’s a man of many talents.

Might as well have called it The Distortion!

Car model names have been bad-to-absurd for years, Now it's the turn of headphones?

I just read my own post as "funny ball-shaped tits."

I just found myself missed the comment. Not if you were using an anamorphic lens! But yeah, come to think of it: what do you expect from "Bokeh"? Better layering?

Funny, but not unattractive, distortions in the background.

I pronounce it bock-a. Boke (rhymes with oak) and something-like-bouquet (as in a bunch of flowers) are the weirdest I've heard.

Subsequent models will be called "F-Stop", Neutral Density Filter, and Circular Polarizer.

Focus fail and Motion Blur.

@Thad E Ginathom yes I agree technically but to most photography noobs or novices or ignoramuses, bokeh is this holy, beautiful thing and the only reason they own a DSLR so they can jerk off to the bokeh with their $3k lens.

And so to most people bokeh instills in them a feeling of romanticism and old fashioned timelessness and beauty and technology giving them all of these things. So it’s a great name for a ZMF headphone specifically especially one that isn’t a top technical product and great marketing.

It’s about the quality of the background blur to contrast and ironically bring focus to the subject. Music is like that sometimes.

@rhythmdevils I assume this is the reasoning. As you point out, bokeh is to photo neophytes what bass volume is to audio initiates. It's an inside joke by Zach on anyone who doesn't get the joke.

It's like "Look at you! You're part of the ZMF Club now and think you're level expert, but someday you'll mature and see the value of the higher end offerings. Until then, we'll pat you on the head."

So maybe we start calling HD600 the "Post-Bokeh"?

Even though I am a photographer, I am not sure if out of focus background is "bokeh" without the balls.

@rhythmdevils, I have read that surveys show that /only/ photographers give a toss about bokeh! In other words, to everyone else, it is *all* balls! ...

... As a photographer I certainly use lenses that give me out of focus backgrounds. I'm using the fast lens to get the shutter speed high enough to freeze the motion of the main subject. But I don't at all object to the OOF side effect :)

But there are no light sources to give me bokeh balls.

Star bursts are the small-aperture thing. aesthetically I'm not very keen, but, finding myself with sun glinting on ripples the other day, I stopped down to get some, just for the experiment.

In audio terms, star bursts might be treble spikes?

While I doubt many dog sports fans know about bokeh, the effect helps make the dog pop against the background. Top k9 photogs. use the pricey Canon lenses to get this effect.

Whether the non-photographic public know about depth of field or not, it does it's thing, and it does make the sharply-focused subject stand out. It works!

@Thad E Ginathom, talking image equivalents, to me treble peak-iness would be highlight roll-off, the shape of higher values as they approach the clipping point. Diffraction stars are a common artifact inherent to a capture instrument that differ between manufacturers, so I'd say microphone pickup pattern is your aperture and the timbre of the mic is like your number of blades/onion rings/flares/whathaveyou

Super analysis, @roshambo123 !

This conversation is in severe danger of becoming sensible :D !lol!

:)