

Nowadays, with digital cameras we talk about the gain of the light-amplification system. In the days of film cameras, we talked about film sensitivity (“fast” film being more sensitive to light than “slow” film). the sensitivity of the image-capturing surface to light.The extreme case of a pinhole camera has a very tiny aperture with infinite depth of field (no need to focus at all), but captures very little light, so it needs a very well-lit scene, a long exposure, or a very sensitive image-capturing surface.

A wider aperture increases the amount of light being captured without contributing to motion blur, but it reduces the depth of field. This is expressed, not as an actual distance measurement, but as a fraction of the focal length of the lens (loosely, distance between the lens and the image-capturing surface when the image is properly focused), written as f: thus, say, f/2.8 (“ f over 2.8”, not “ f 2.8”) is a larger number, hence representing a wider aperture, than f/8. the aperture - how wide the iris opening is.The longer this is, the more light is captured, but also the more likely the image is to pick up motion blur from moving objects. the exposure time - how long the shutter remains open.The narrower the range of in-focus distances (the shallower the depth of field), the more quickly this blurring happens with objects outside it. Objects outside this range will begin to appear noticeably blurred, the blur getting worse the farther they are outside the focus range. the focus - because of the way lenses work, only objects within a certain distance range from the camera (the depth of field) will appear sharp in the image.

When taking a photo with a real camera, a number of important factors come into play: We have become accustomed to so many of their quirks and limitations when looking at real photographs, that 3D software like Blender often expends a lot of effort to mimic those quirks. Real-World Cameras īefore discussing the camera in Blender, it helps to understand something about how cameras work in real life.
