The f/stop is a source of confusion for many people. This page explains it in gory detail. ... Despite being one of the exposure controls in photography, the f/stop remains a source of confusion and mystery to many photographers, even to some who use it all the time.
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F-number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In optics, the f-number (sometimes called focal ratio , f-ratio , or relative aperture ) of an optical system expresses the diameter of the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the l...
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Aperture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays tha...
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Adjusting the F-Stop ... F-Stop Basics ... The f-stop controls the amount of light that is allowed to pass through a camera lens. In the case of the Cyberware 3D Digitizers the f-stop controls the amount of light that will be cast upon the data collection CCD.
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Too many camera store associates and photo instructors forget that once they didn't know the difference between an f-stop and a bus stop. The jargon can be intimidating to newcomers, but almost everybody has a pretty good understanding about a few plumbing basics - so I make comparisons:
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Summary: a systematic method to find the f-stop which as a function of the displacement of the standards between the far and near points, measured on the camera with a scale (the focus spread). Two optical effects are taken into account: defocus and diffraction.
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