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Old 09-03-2006, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by wildone
Digi, I find this rather technical ( I am only a struggling female). Is the aperture the hole in the front that the lens 'sees' through? So the smaller the hole the shallower the DOF?

Maam, the wider the hole the shallower the dof, a photographer will ofter refer to a lens being wide open.

A big aperture refers to the small f numbers on a lens and a small aperture refers to the larger numbers, simple isn't it.
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