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What are the theoretical minimum and maximum apertures?
Since this is 2 questions (narrowest aperture, and widest aperture, I'm answering this in 2 answers
Widest Aperture (fastest f-number)
TL;DR: For a photographic camera and lens in air, the fastest ...
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What are the theoretical minimum and maximum apertures?
Since this is 2 questions (narrowest aperture, and widest aperture, I'm answering this in 2 answers
Narrowest Aperture
For imaging systems in non-scientific applications (i.e., cameras taking ...
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What are the theoretical minimum and maximum apertures?
Maximum aperture f/number of conventional lens is 0.35 = SQRT(2)/4, one step faster than 0,5.
Not zero, not 0.5, not 0.33.
Hope bloggers, commentators and wikipedia will learn that once and for all.
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