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I see there is a lot of missing information on that graphic.

A lot of the missing information is fundamental information too.

Cheat sheets like that that only show the lens aperture as affecting DoF are very misleading and lots of people are not aware that lens focal length and point of focus distance are as equally important. How far behind the point of focus the background is also should be considered.

The cheat sheet also does not show how focus sharpness is lost to diffraction at the point of focus when a lens is stopped down to a small aperture.

With some lenses that loss of sharpness is noticeable at apertures as large as f/8.

Also, many of today's DSLRs deliver high ISO (1600 IS) and greater) shots with little image noise.

I have a 10 year old Nikon D50 that can make 1 stop under exposed photos at ISO 1600 with very little image noise even after a stop of exposure is added post process.

Under exposure generally makes image noise more visible, particularly if exposure is added post process.

So, others can rely on what the middle Shutter Speed graphics depict, as long as they understand that those graphics only apply to motion parallel to the image sensing media (film/analog pixels).

Motion perpendicular or diagonal to the image sensing media can be 'stopped' with a slightly longer shutter speed than those full stop steps in the graphics.
 
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