Here are a few examples to help you learn how to use the chart you just printed.
Align the shutter speed 1/250 with f-stop, f-16. This exposure would be called 1/250 @ f-16. Pretend you are taking a picture of a waterfall and want to make the water blurry when you print the photograph. You would do so by making the shutter speed slower than 1/250. Let us say you chose the shutter speed 1/60 of a second. How would you set the aperture to match this? Simple, look across to the f-stop column and your answer would be f-32. If you wanted to make the water appear as clear droplets, set the shutter speed to 1/2000 of a second. The corresponding f-stop would be f-5.6.
Now align the shutter speed ½ with f-11. If I wanted to make the shutter speed 1/30, what would be the corresponding f-stop? Highlight the box to find out.
| f-2.8 |
Notice a pattern when finding the aligning shutter speeds with f-stops? However many rows you move the shutter speeds, you move the same amount to find the corresponding aperture.
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