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By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Van Wert Area Photography Club’s next meeting will start at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, at 114 S. Race St..\u00a0 I’ve attended a lot of camera club meetings and this one promises to be like\u00a0no other!<\/p>\n

President Stuart Jewett has labeled\u00a0the photo competition\u00a0as a CHALLENGE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He says that the photo challenge for\u00a0April 13th\u00a0is to bring in your most interesting shots of a toilet as the main subject. \u00a0He offers such possible suggestions as: a toilet as a planter, with flowers growing out of it, or a toilet with a perfect model sitting on it, etc. Jewett states that this is a real, and serious challenge. To win, you will have to be very creative in your thinking and anyone is welcome to join this challenge. Just bring\u00a0no more than\u00a0four\u00a04×6 printed photos, and if you’d like, an optional backup on a thumb drive, to our regular meeting on the 2nd Thursday of April.\u00a0Judging will be based only on the photos submitted.<\/p>\n

Moving to a piece of trivia, I’ve been curious how the term “aperture” got started in the field of photography.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I did some research and discovered that it was more of an “oh” moment than ‘OH’. (I almost reflexively added IO)<\/p>\n

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An illustration of the effects of\u00a0aperture on the photo. (Graphic by Rex Dolby.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I learned it was a Middle English word dating back to 1400-50\u00a0that was\u00a0derived from the Latin word.\u00a0apertura,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>which means “opening”.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 The word “stop” was connected to aperture in 1858 when John Waterhouse invented a system for controlling the amount of light entering the camera by creating discs with various diameter holes in them.\u00a0 In 1895, John Hodges proposed a “fractional number” which may have led to the term “F-stop”.\u00a0 In 1901 C. Welborne Piper proposed the “fractional diameter” which evolved into the “f-number”.<\/p>\n

In 1961 the American Standards Association (ASA) declared that the “f-number” was the proper term for setting camera\u00a0aperture, but many people thought that “f-stop” was easier to say and write so it\u00a0has pretty much stuck. From all this you might be able to\u00a0conclude that the f is related to the amount of light you have allowed to reach the sensor or film by stopping all additional light. (Dolby’s simplified version.)<\/p>\n

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By Rex Dolby The Van Wert Area Photography Club’s next meeting will start at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, at 114 S. Race St..\u00a0 I’ve attended a lot of camera club meetings and this one promises to be like\u00a0no other! President Stuart Jewett has labeled\u00a0the photo competition\u00a0as a CHALLENGE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He says that the photo challenge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 06:16:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}