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Taking the Picture – Pinholes and F-Stops
By Gary Fabbri, Malin Fabbri and Peter Wiklund
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2014
About this lesson
Explains how to calculate a pinhole camera's f-stop from focal length and pinhole diameter, gives a reference f-stop sequence from f/16 to f/1024, and stresses keeping notes of exposure times against results.
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