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Stop down

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  1. 1
    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.

    "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."

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