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The functional opening is the aperture, the opening that controls the amount of light that hits the photosensitive surface. You may have a camera with interchangeable lenses that screw into and out of the camera's body. The opening into which the lens is screwed is not the aperture.

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The aperture of the lens

The shutter speed

The ISO setting-how sensitive you want the camera sensor to be

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