Usually means: Reducing lens aperture to increase depth.
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  1. stopping down: Merriam-Webster
  2. stopping down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stopping down: Wiktionary
  4. Stopping down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Stopping down: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Stopping down: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stopping down: Encyclopedia

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  1. Stopping down: Medical dictionary

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  1. Stopping Down: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  2. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Stopping down)

noun:  In photography, stopping down refers to increasing the numerical f-stop number (for example, going from 2 to 4), which decreases the size (diameter) of the aperture of a lens, resulting in reducing the amount of light entering the iris of a lens.


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