{"id":30,"date":"2015-01-31T21:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2015-02-01T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:15:42","slug":"what-is-a-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"What is a &#8220;Stop&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now we can answer why we use the word \u201cstop\u201d in talking about exposure.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/technique\/aperture-ring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/technique\/aperture-ring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn old cameras with a manual aperture ring, the aperture numbers are marked on the ring, similarly to the picture show above. On these old lenses, there was a mechanical click, or \u201cstop,\u201d built in to the action of that ring. I believe that this is why we refer to the exposure changes in terms of stops.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Next:\u00a0<a title=\"How Aperture Relates to the other legs of the Triangle\" href=\"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?p=32\">How aperture relates to other legs of the Exposure Triangle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we can answer why we use the word \u201cstop\u201d in talking about exposure. On old cameras with a manual aperture ring, the aperture numbers are marked on the ring, similarly to the picture show above. On these old lenses, there was a mechanical click, or \u201cstop,\u201d built in to the action of that ring.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aperture","category-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}