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stop down

verb

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  1. To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a…

    To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.

    • The f/stops are arranged so that as you stop down, each stop allows half the amount of light to pass through as the stop before it did.
    • To get an image with a larger “depth of field”—ie, where more of the distant objects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus—the photographer must “stop down” the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted.

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