Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 50/1.2 or 50/1.5 or 50/2?!
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 19:38:12 -0700

At 4:44 PM -0400 8/5/00, Krechtz@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/5/00 3:53:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>henningw@archiphoto.com writes:
>
><< That's the real test of the effective relative
> aperture, or 't-stop'. >>
>
>For more on T-stops or T-numbers and related topics, see the Focal
>Encyclopedia of Photography.  In the 3rd Edition (1993), check p. 791.  I was
>looking for the name Cooke, which I remember as the name of the optical firm
>which developed lenses calibrated in T-stops.  There may have been others
>unknown to me.
>
>Joe Sobel

Many movie camera lenses are calibrated in t-stops.

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