![]() What does this have to do with photos you might be thinking. You might have heard photographers say a “wide open aperture”, “stop down”, “open up” etc. I will explain this a little later in a later section (Fstop). When you have a high fstop (10, 16, 22, etc.) your aperture is smaller. When you have a small fstop (1.8, 2.8, 3.2, etc.) your aperture is larger. When you adjust your F-stop, this adjusts the aperture (opening in the lens). Here is where it gets a little interesting and took me a little time to wrap my head around it. These blades create a small opening (the aperture) and open and close to adjust the size of the opening and the amount of light let in. Shine a light at specific angles to see it better (minus the colorful lights you see in this photo haha). ![]() If you look inside your lens you will see a similar scene to the below. Why is Aperture important:Īs I mentioned, the Aperture is the opening in the lens that allows light in through a mechanical device called “Aperture Blades”, also known as the Diaphragm in optics. This is because the f/2.8 lens has a lower f-stop thus more expensive (more on this later). You might have seen 2 lenses that look almost the same: Yes, you adjust it in the camera body, but its actually a lens setting. The F-stop setting is actually determined by the lens you are using. While this is partially true, it is not the determining factor of your f-stop. So lets get started with the first Camera Setting: F-Stop and Aperture First lets define a few words:į-Stop or F-Number: This stands for 'Focal Length' Stop or numberĪperture: Simply means “opening" (Commonly used to describe the setting and basically interchangeable at this point) Parts of a Lens:Ī lot of people think the Fstop is a setting that is changed inside the camera body. I decided to do Blogs on the 3 camera settings with the information you want to know and need to know and filter out the information that doesn’t really matter – like the mathematical calculation to determine why your f-stop is the number that it is – you don’t really need to know why your f-stop is 4.0 you just need to know what that means for your pictures. There is information you want to know, there is information you have to know and there is information you really don’t need to know. You could probably spend 1 month, 24 hours a day, each day and only get through 1% of the material out there. ![]() There are tons of videos, writeups, explanations, and what have you when it comes to your camera settings.
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