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The Camera has not been moved from the first picture, only the F-stop has been changed thereby narrowing the focal plane.
Archive 2010-03-01 shipping troll 2010
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Come on, come on, how are we supposed to compare the two photos if you won't give us the EXIF info, like F-stop, ISO and other settings?????
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The Camera has not been moved from the first picture, only the F-stop has been changed thereby narrowing the focal plane.
Lesson in Focal planes shipping troll 2010
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F-stop is a ratio of the size of the aperture lens opening divided by the focal length when the lens is focused at infinity.
Back in The Day... 2009
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Frame grabs appearing on some blogs that are championed as the greatest DVD color of all time to me look like a three F-stop light loss and a marked Eastmancolor palate compared with how i.b.
Flooding the Movie Theatre With Color Jaime J. Weinman 2009
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In short: Highest "F-stop" and lowest shutter speed you can manage gives you the greatest depth of field.
The walk home in the snow. Ann Althouse 2008
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Date and time stamping, of course, is old stand-by from chemical film, but EXIF allows a far broader range: type of camera, F-stop, shutter speed, ISO (the digital equivalent of film speed), whether a flash was used.
Practical Futurist: What's Next For Digital Photography 2007
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There was a log in which the picture taker had noted the time of each shot, the brand and speed of film, the F-stop, and the subject of each photograph.
Confession Nancy Pickard 1994
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There was a log in which the picture taker had noted the time of each shot, the brand and speed of film, the F-stop, and the subject of each photograph.
Confession Nancy Pickard 1994
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There was a log in which the picture taker had noted the time of each shot, the brand and speed of film, the F-stop, and the subject of each photograph.
Confession Nancy Pickard 1994
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