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  1. 06-23-2008, 12:23 PM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by 13Bracer
    this is really a really dumb question but what is f/stop?
    Focal length divided by the aperture diameter. In full manual mode everything is fully adjustable with each setting being as equal important as the other: shutter, f/stop, ISO, etc..these are all things that could be learned with a point & shoot before jumping into a DSLR

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number

    The following images are the same shot with different f/stops, the first is f/5 and the 2nd is f/32, two completely different looking photos but the same shot with only a couple settings changed...
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