One stop of light is usually defined as halving or doubling the amount of light entering the camera, depending on the shutter speed, aperture, or ISO changes made.

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Thanks to a larger aperture, floating the entire camera assembly to reduce vibrations, and I suspect a huge amount of software development, the Lumia 920 boasts low light handling abilities closer to that of an SLR than a phone camera.

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