Sentence examples for stop down from inspiring English sources
verb
To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.
He would succeed Lawrence S. Bacow, who announced in February that he would stop down as president after 10 years.
I stop down and show love in Houston, then I do my shows there then on to the next city you know?
Before you settle down with your basket (preferably in sunny Flint Park in Larchmont), stop down the block from Stan'z for one of Bradley Smith's prized pastries.
Equally, to get an image with a larger "depth of field"—ie, where more of the distantobjects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus the photographer must "stop down" the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted.
Some researchers have suggested that vendors decrease the numerical aperture of their lenses or stop down the condenser – effectively trading lower maximal optical resolution for a deeper depth of field [ 19].
Stop down to f/8 or f/11.
It's very stopped down, with an 800-millimeter lens — sometimes 600, but mostly 800-millimeter.
Parents stopped down the street to spare children the embarrassment of being seen with Mom.
You have very little depth of field, so you want it to be stopped down as much as possible.
Two stops down from f1 to f 0.5.
Wide open is the opposite of being stopped down.
