Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] depth of field..depth of focus?
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:59:19 -0700
 
Ted Grant wrote:
> 
> Hi gang,
> 
> I had a young photo student ask me, "Why do they call it depth of field
> when it's really a kind of "depth of focus?"
> 
It's important for us photo types to replace obvious to the point terms with
unusual ones to make our  craft as opaque as possible to outsiders. We want
people to think we are doing something more complicated than just going click.
Mark Rabiner