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Lecture 15: Cameras and Lenses (90)
minos-cs184

Since the left picture has a shallow depth of field, is it a typo that the left picture was taken with f/4 instead of f/11? Sorry if this was covered in person.

jenzou

To minos-cs184: I don't think this is a typo. The slide before this also compares depths of field, where the blurrier background (shallow depth of field) image has aperture f/4f/4 and the clearer images have smaller apertures f/11f/11 and f/32f/32. This is similar to the example in this slide, where the blurrier background image has larger aperture f/4f/4 and the clearer background image has smaller aperture f/11f/11.

jenzou

Larger aperture means smaller shutter time for the same amount of exposure, which produces blurrier background (shallow depth of field), so this means NN in A=fNA=\frac{f}{N} is smaller (and less motion blur, which applies more to example on previous slide and not this slide).

Smaller aperture gives the opposite result.

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