Can bokeh be achieved with film/analog cameras?

[hooray4mo]

To get lights in the background focus on something in the foreground. For this photo I had fairy lights hanging on a white board a few feet away from the parfait. My aperture was at f1.4


Winter parfait by Cheryl, on Flickr

To get just lights I focused on an object closer than the lighted tree and then recomposed to the tree to take the photo


Twist lights by Cheryl, on Flickr

Thank you Cheryl! Your photos are great by the way

 

[petrochemist]

Way back in the olden days of film we just called it shallow depth of field.

Never understood the need to invent words for something everyone already had words for.

I mean if shallow depth of field is now called bokeh is deep depth of field called anti-bokeh?

It seems to be a common misconception that bokeh means shallow DOF, it doesn't.
Bokeh relates to the nature of out of focus highlights (shape, transition etc) which can't be seen when everything is in focus.
Shots with shallow DOF make the bokeh more obvious which is no doubt the reason for confusion.

This ancient example of butterfly shaped bokeh doesn't have particularly shallow DOF
Butterfly bokeh portrait by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

This extremely shallow DOF shot (salt through a microscope) doesn't show the bokeh at all (indeed I don't think I've ever seen it with a microscope)
salt 015 by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

 

[cgw]

Maybe this abused dead horse deserves a decent burial?

 

[snowbear]

Maybe this abused dead horse deserves a decent burial?

I agree.