Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A camera lens aperture setting that corresponds to an f-number.
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- noun photography Any of the
discrete steps or stopping points foradjusting theaperture of alens , either marked on aring on the lens and adjusted byrotating that ring or marked in the display of adigital camera and adjusted bybuttons or touch-sensitive controls.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Notice the decrease in sharpness as I increased the f-stop (decreased the aperture diameter).
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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Few of God's wonders are as inspiring as a waterfall: Ah ... wide-angle lens, 1/8-second exposure (without a tripod), f-stop, let's see ...
Style Invitational Week 872: Make a word out of a name; and geeky musings 2010
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Contact f-stop focus: top 10 Rock-tographers on Flickr
f-stop focus: top 10 Rock-tographers on Flickr « the pureamber blog | explore see grow 2010
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Moath 18 days ago brilliant, @ what f-stop were you filming this?
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Buy a camera that goes down to an f-stop of at least 2.8.
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This would indicate (1) low f-stop (2) high pixel count and top quality lens (3)pushing the saturation during processing. 1 and 2 are camera functions, both of which my Canon S2 fall short on.
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Surefire flashlights are the best of the best and amazing for light painting--just watch that f-stop and shutter speed w/ 120 lumens!
RadioPopper JrX Will Make You Fat and Happy [Full Review] 2009
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Notice the decrease in sharpness as I increased the f-stop decreased the aperture diameter.
Depth of field, f-numbers and diffraction (or how to take a rotten photograph) AYDIN 2009
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I need to work on depth of field; in olden times that meant shrinking the aperture/cranking up the f-stop with an attendant longer exposure time if I remember correctly.
Nerdism 2009
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I need to work on depth of field; in olden times that meant shrinking the aperture/cranking up the f-stop with an attendant longer exposure time if I remember correctly.
oroboros commented on the word f-stop
The "F" refers to focal length.
March 26, 2011