Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/08

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Subject: Re: DOF (was: RE: [Leica]Why a 35mm lens?)
From: "M.E.Berube" <MEB@goodphotos.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:13:20 -0500
 
At 09:44 AM 11/8/00 -0800, Douglas Herr wrote:
>DOF has nothing to do with focal length.  DOF is influenced by image 
>magnification and aperture.  Shorter lenses have greater DOF for a given 
>aperture and working distance because of the reduced image magnification.

OK.
Aren't lenses that are "Shorter" and have "reduced image magnification" 
usually pretty much reciprocal with Wider Angle focal length lenses?
(I'm honestly trying to gain new knowledge with this question.)

Carpe Luminem,
Michael