A device that controls the amount of light admitted
through an opening. In photography and
digital photography, aperture is the unit of measurement that defines the
size of the opening in the lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of
light reaching the film or digital sensor. The size
of the aperture is measured in F-stop.
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