- ‘The opening in the lens.’
- Controls the brightness of the image that passes through the lens and falls on the image sensor.
- Measured in ‘f-stops’
- Small aperture = bigger number (example: f/22)
- Large aperture = smaller number (example: f/1.8)
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Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. - Peter Adams - Sydney 1978