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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
James Artaius

Bokeh: camera settings for film and digital photos with beautiful blur

Black and white photograph of a woman, wearing glasses and a black coat, against a blurry outdoor background.

Looking for bokeh camera settings, on a film or digital camera? Getting a delicious, bokehlicious, blurry background requires the same set of parameters whether your camera is analog, DSLR or mirrorless.

If you're asking what is bokeh, in technicaly terms, it doesn't actually mean the blurry background itself; rather, it's the quality of that blur, and the out of focus areas in the fore and background of an image. Though some people still use "bokeh" and "blur" interchangeably. 

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