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Lens
> Lens controls > Aperture
Many
camcorders use numbers to describe the size of the aperture.
These numbers are called f-stops.
It
might make sense to number the f-stops 1,2,3,4 etc.,
but that's not how it works. Instead, the official f-stop
numbers don't seem to make any logical sense--and they
probably aren't 100 people in the world who can explain
WHY we use this collection of numbers. Nonetheless,
here they are:
2,
2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22
You
DO need to know that small numbers (2, 2.8 etc) mean
big lens openings and big numbers (16,22) mean small
openings. Crazy, huh?
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