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[quote name='Brightcolours' timestamp='1313013566' post='10600']

It is bokeh, not bouquet... not sure how to write it phonetically for french, bit the bo part is like "beau".... the keh part kind of like "les". Bokeh comes from a Japanese word "Boke".



I disagree on the relative good job on the bokeh for that particular lens though,.. not very smooth (the background blur), not even for a 35mm lens. Nice colours in your garden, though.



By the way, bokeh is used to describe or express the quality of the blurred parts, the "rendering". Not the amount of blur.

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If you're going to be pedantic, it's actually boke; a standard Romanization of the Japanese word. Bokeh is just an alternative and somewhat Americanized Romanization of it.



The French bouquet seems a perfectly reasonable alternative Romanization and seems to be a very close match to the pronounciation to the the Japanese boke.



Compare pronounciations (click "Listen"):

[url="http://translate.google.com/?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en#ja|en|%E6%9A%88%E3%81%91"]boke - Japanese[/url]

[url="http://translate.google.com/?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en#fr|en|bouquet"]bouquet - français[/url]

Quite similar.



As for the meaning of boke, it simply means "blurred" or "out-of-focus". On it's own, it has no meaning about the quality (nor the amount of blur).