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stop_down
stop down
English
Verb
to stop down (third-person singular simple present stops down, present participle stopping down, simple past and past participle stopped down)
- (photography) 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.
- 1982, Marvin J. Rosen, Introduction to photography: a self-directing approach, 2nd ed., ISBN 9780395297650, p. 71:
- 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.
- 2002, "Images from a blurred world," The Economist, 12 Dec. (retrieved 3 Apr. 2009):
- 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.
- 1982, Marvin J. Rosen, Introduction to photography: a self-directing approach, 2nd ed., ISBN 9780395297650, p. 71: