Frank
I don't know the etymology, but the same word is used on other
machines. For instance the mechanism for opening and closing a signal
lamp is a shutter.
Chris
On 17 Jan 2009, at 18:00, Frank van Lindert wrote:
> 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. ;-)
>
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