depth of focus

British  

noun

1. the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred Compare depth of field

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Example Sentences

“Rather than working super long hours, they maximized the amount of depth of focus time they had per day,” he said, “and really protected that and organized their day so they could put in about 4 or 4½ hours of really intensive deep work.”

From Washington Post

The film theorist André Bazin wrote that a long take, with its depth of focus, could bring “the spectator into a relation with the image closer to that which he enjoys with reality.”

From Los Angeles Times

“The framing and the composition and the soft depth of focus is in the style of fiction cinema,” he explained.

From The New Yorker

The depth of focus is stubbornly shallow, the edges of the frame often hypnotically blurred.

From Los Angeles Times

They ar either entitled or ignorant and have no depth of focus.

From New York Times