A bit like the gardeners' definition of a 'weed' - a plant in the wrong place. Someone else might like it, or you might like it yourself, given a different photograph. Sum mer PhD ( talk) 01:09, (UTC) It's rather subjective - 'bad' bokeh is bokeh that you don't like.
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Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.38.208.30 ( talk) 15:07, (UTC) Feel free to research it and add it yourself, 99.38.208.30. The article mentions good and bad bokeh, could someone add more about what constitutes bad bokeh, and maybe an example or two? Thank you. Some Canon consumer camcorders have rhombus shaped apertures !- 195.137.93.171 ( talk) 02:39, 7 October 2013 (UTC) bad bokeh and the 'square aperture' isn't just an abstract hypothetical thought-experiment. 195.137.93.171 ( talk) 15:40, 8 February 2013 (UTC) It's a bit like arguing whether the Nile is the water, or the channel in the earth that it runs in. So the way you use the lens affects the bokeh, as well as the design of the lens.
Turning the aperture so the edges were at 45 degrees would give a smoother effect. To give an extreme example: if the aperture were square, then its edges could be aligned with horizontal and vertical objects which would have sharp edges even when out-of-focus. Señor Service ( talk) 19:27, (UTC) "characteristic of the image, not the lens itself" was useful info that you have deleted - OK, not sourced - that would be good to find citation for and re-introduce the distinction. Feel free to restore it, but make sure you cite it please.
The stuff about it being misleading appears to be the editor's own opinion. 'Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light".' 'Sometimes bokeh is misleadingly defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light", since it is the characteristic of the image, not the lens itself.' This edit broke the page, so I reverted it + pasted it back ! - 195.137.93.171 ( talk) 03:28, 30 March 2012 (UTC) Removed original research - "Sometimes bokeh is misleadingly defined." On the subject of European lenses On the subject of European lenses, I found the Bokeh on a standard 50mm f1.8 Praktica particularly pleasing, the old M42 ones 80.7.74.46 ( talk) 23:47, 28 March 2012 (UTC) 12 "Portrait mode" listed at Redirects for discussion.11 A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion.4 Aberration at close-focus distances - spherical or astigmatism ?.2 Removed original research - "Sometimes bokeh is misleadingly defined.".