Re: newbie : exposure terminology - aperture "increase".


"Mike Kohary" <no@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:19:44 -0500, "DBLEXPOSURE"
> <celstuff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Without reading the book and knowing in what context the author used the
>>words it is hard to say he is in error. For example, By "Increasing" the
>>aperture from f/8 to f/11 you are decreasing the amount of light that
>>reaches the film, would be a correct statement.
>
> No it wouldn't - you are "decreasing" the aperture in such a case,
> because you're literally and physical making the aperture smaller.
>
>>You have to admit that for beginners this can be confusing at first,
>>either
>>way you say it. If you turn the sentence around and say decrease the
>>aperture, most beginners will want to dial in a smaller number.
>
> Perhaps a bit confusing, but it's not that hard to pick up. Surely
> having different books call it different things is even more
> confusing. For my part, I think a book that makes such basic errors
> shouldn't even be on the shelf.
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Mike, I think we all know that a larger f-stop is a smaller opening. My
point was without reading the book you know not what the context of the
statement was. The OP could have interpreted in wrong. I was trying to get
across the he may have been referring to increasing the f-stop number rather
than the physical size of the aperture.


It's like saying, Turn the Air conditioning up. So, do you want it colder
or warmer?


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