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Depth of Field; DoF, is not much of a consideration for me because of the type of camera I use. The kind of things that influence the DoF don’t play much of a roll in most of the stuff I do and if it is apparent then it is quite deep.

However it is useful to understand how DoF works and how to manipulate it when needed because it goes a long way in understanding how you camera works.

It is also quite complicated to explain without the aid of pictures, etc, so I aint gonna do it instead; here are some extremely useful links:

http://ifsstech.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/refresher-on-camera-iris-and-shutter-speed/

Excellent 20 min video or small ones for each topic: http://snodart.com/tutorials.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/950/depth-of-field.html

And a DoF calculator Widget to boot: http://i360.tv/DOFC_widget_en