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Originally Posted by Montec
If you understand that the f stops are measured in fractions then you should realize that f/4 is a larger number than f/8. It is elementary math. Anyone who gets this backwards is just not thinking about it.
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This is the key to it. However most beginners - and guys who never went into it when they started - have so much to handle at the same time, that the ratio aspect gets forgotten.
Then as well, there are many people for whom this 'elementary math' is a challenge in itself - often these people are artistically gifted, but not numerically, and we need to understand their difficulties in dealing with things that may be second nature to others.