Aperture?
To follow on from Gary ... your beaut new Nikon - as with Canons, Sonys, Pentaxes and others - all enjoy heaps of built-in electronics to make it easier & better for you to take good photos and enjoy yourself at the same time. However the electronics hides the mechanical operations until you press the button and you hear the responding 'clunk' as everything does its stuff and takes the actual photo
To help answer your very basic Qs, I suggest that you visit a camera museum / trash 'n treasure stall / second hand dealer and ask these questions, and so be shown how the "old" cameras worked mechanically. See how the aperture ring actually opens and closes as you alter the numbers on the lens ... see how the focal plane shutter opens and closes ... how the mirror pops up and back down again as the exposure takes place ~ I feel that once you have seen it in operation more stuff will fall into place and you can get on with the actual photo-taking process with a better understanding of what is happening at all times
Equally if the above is not an option - try YouTube for some videos from other well meaning people, you never know what you'll find
Hope this helps
Phil from the great land Downunder
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Sorry for the confusion... James-Germana wrote: I ended up figuring out the answer after thinking more about my question. I didn't realize that the lense only specifies the lowest aperture at each zoom and not the entire range
Well, I wondered about that possiblity. The nomenclature is a but unclear, yes. The first number of the range applies to the shortest focal length, which gradually increases to the second number, which applies to the longest focal length. These are the minimum aperture values possible for the lens, scaled along the entire range of the zoom.
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