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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Are female characters in tv series ST blurry?
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 04:43:29 EST
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>Yes, the female characters in the TV series were 'blurry'. They were
>filmed with a 'soft filter'. (Any photography nut wanna tell us exactly
>what that is?) I presume this was done to make them more feminine, as
>opposed to the 'harsh', sharply focused men.

     If I remember my photography correctly, which is slightly inlikely since
it was over 9 years ago, a soft filter is a filter that is not totally trans-
parent, sort of like the kind of glass one sometimes sees in shower stalls.
Just enough is light is passed through to see shapes, but not much detail. A
soft filter is similar but not quite so drastic. Another use photographers use
it for is to hide small physical imperfections of the subject the photographer
wishes to photograph.