Forgive me for becoming a bit philosophical, but today - when reading
about anonymizing, obscuring, and obfuscating - another language
question came up.
Why is the opening-and-closing system of a camera lens called a
shutter in English?
In Dutch and French I see the same phenomenon: 'sluiter' and
'obturateur' are the words for shutter, but here also there is no
reference to the opening part of the mechanism...
In German one always speaks of 'Auslöser' which means more or less
'release'. Which actually is a different thing altogether.
I am really in the dark now and hope someone can shed some light. ;-)
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL
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