Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A camera lens aperture setting that corresponds to an f-number.
- n. See f-number.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- f(ocal length) + stop. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Notice the decrease in sharpness as I increased the f-stop (decreased the aperture diameter).”
“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 ...”
The Washington Post: Style Invitational Week 872: Make a word out of a name; and geeky musings
“Buy a camera that goes down to an f-stop of at least 2.8.”
“Contact f-stop focus: top 10 Rock-tographers on Flickr”
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“Moath 18 days ago brilliant, @ what f-stop were you filming this?”
“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.”
“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.”
“Surefire flashlights are the best of the best and amazing for light painting--just watch that f-stop and shutter speed w/ 120 lumens!”
“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)
“I wonder why I seemed to have no trouble learning to shoot with the Nikon rangefinder, with having to read the light & calculate the f-stop & shutter speed; or the various Minolta SLRs I went through; but this bloody Nikon DSLR just makes me want to drop-kick it across the Puget Sound?”
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Alphabet Stories
Phrases, words, ideas that are associated with one or two letters in the English language.
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
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exposure
being words related to photography and the photographic arts
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Photography-related
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monochrome, sepia, silhouette, fish eye, telephoto, focus, depth of field, aperture, shutter speed, tripod, monopod, saturation and 37 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for f-stop.
oroboros The "F" refers to focal length. Mar 26, 2011