Questions tagged [aperture]
Aperture is the opening in the diaphragm of a camera lens. For questions relating to Apple's photo management software, please use [apple-aperture] instead.
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Is diffraction limited aperture independent of lens?
I have always understood diffraction limited aperture as a property of the camera and its sensor, not of the lens. The camera has a certain sensor size and a certain megapixel count, which together ...
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How to avoid noise in Aperture Priority mode arising due to auto-ISO?
I was taking photos of birds in a cloudy day and in an area of forest where light was even low under a tree as compared to other areas.
I used 70-300 mm kit lens. When trying to take photo even at 1/...
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Why does the lower f-stop in my camera makes the photo darker?
I have a nikon d5100 camera with 35mm/f 1.8 lens. I'm not sure what's going wrong with my camera but my photo with larger f-stop numbers is brighter than the photo with smaller f-stop numbers (the ISO ...
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Do aperture blades move between each shot in burst mode?
Most professional cameras have a burst mode function. Furthermore, if the camera is SLR, the optical viewfinder shows what happens between the images in the burst, but when an image is taken, there is ...
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Is there any reason to change the ISO manually?
Here's my understanding so far. When taking a photo with a digital camera, there are some tradeoffs:
Aperture size: bigger aperture lets in more light, smaller aperture means less blurring in space.
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What are the ISO, exposure, and aperture settings for single frames from slow-motion video on the iPhone 6?
I filmed a video of myself swinging a tennis racket in slow motion and then used cv2 to make jpg's of some of the frames, ie. 8 ...
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Changing the camera ISO , Aperture, Shutter Speed with Android
I have a smartphone with Android 8.0.
I need control over :
ISO
Aperture
Shutter speed
Could you please suggest the way to go forward? I do not know how to change any of them?
I am using an ...
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Does a camera have to have a contiguous housing?
The lens group in this picture would have its own protective lens tubes like the one on a camera but one for each lens group. What would be an issue having a gap between the lens group and stray light ...
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Can a camera be a mile long?
Could parts of a camera be spaced out over a distance rather then together to work in a way a normal camera cannot? What characteristics would this camera have over a normal camera?
In the picture ...
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Determine the effective aperture size by f-stop/sensor size/focal length/Size of CoC [duplicate]
Is it possible to calculate the effective aperture size by the parameters below?
f-stop
sensor size
focal length of lens
size of circle of confusion
If yes, what is the equation?
If no, what are ...
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Is there an online lens diffraction and maximum sharpness table?
I simply want to see an table that lists the lens diffraction limit of each camera.
I have came across this well done answer with animated PNG
and I realized there i also the perfect sharpness ...
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What should I do when my D3400 aperture is stuck no matter what lens I use?
I have a D3400 and recently I haven't been able to change the aperture on any of my lenses in manual mode. I have lenses with aperture rings and if I set the aperture to anything below the largest ...
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Question on f-number and exposure [duplicate]
Is there any mathematical proof to show that the exposure in a camera is independent of the focal length used, if the f-number (ratio of focal length to lens diameter) remains constant?
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Relationship between f-number and amount of light being let into the lens system [duplicate]
Why does smaller f-number imply greater aperture diameter and consequently, greater amount of light entering the lens of a camera?
As evidenced from my study across a number of resources, an absolute ...
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Does a lens with a bigger max. aperture focus faster than a lens with a smaller max. aperture?
The assertion by a well known photographer is that the Nikon 400mm f/2.8 set to an aperture of f/5.6 will let in 4 times the light compared to a Nikon 500mm f/5.6 lens set to f/5.6, keeping the ...
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