Re: Taking pictures...

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ryan M Gill wrote:

> At 7:20 AM +0200 6/19/01, Derk Groeneveld wrote:
> >
> >Umm. Wid open diaphragm = f-stop setting ;) Some are taken with a low
> >f-stop (wide open diaphragm) others with a high one.
> >
> 
> Heh...don't you love differences in language. A Diaphram here in the 
> US is something _very_ different...(not unlike the British term for 
> an American Galoshes to speak of another similar item...)

Well, that's one optional definition of 'diaphragm'. The other is
used (even in American english) as Derk noted (in most of my
photography books, anyhow)